Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Washington. It increases both their pleasure in being there and their chagrin and insecurity that it all may so soon be taken away. For some men of power and politics, the city tends to be like a chessboard, for some a football field, for others a blood-drenched battleground. For their wives it is often like a cruise ship: the rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal...
...thing about Kent State was that professor standing on the hill overlooking the "battleground." He was quoted as saying, when he became aware that blood was flowing, "My God, this is for real!" Well, for goodness sake, did he think it wasn't? Do the students think they are playing games? Maybe they'll put away the rocks and dynamite and the rest of their little toys and go home if we get the message across strongly enough -"You're damn right it's for real...
...Supreme Court Justice, former Secretary of Labor, and former U.N. Ambassador. The prominence of the candidates matches the stakes in the race, which go beyond New York's borders and this year's election. Involved are control of the nation's second largest state, a crucial battleground for 1972's presidential election, and a test of ideological trends...
...final analysis, there is a deeper frustration, which can put a dissident taxpayer in the same boat with the student radicals he detests. Largely impotent in the real world, the student turns his campus into a battleground because it seems the only place he has a chance to win. The taxpayer, just as impotent, and forced to keep paying for things he abhors, is throwing his weight around in the only arena where it has any effect. Janet Wells, president of Scarsdale's League of Women Voters, explained the revolt in words that could have come from any young...
...Harvard Square became a scarred battleground this summer as Cambridge youths trashed store windows and skirmished with police on several separate occasions...