Word: minefields
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...Board lurched successfully through the minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
...abstemious, godly and implacable man. With the zeal of the godly he went to work. Hour after hour, for twelve days, his Eighth Army had surged against every foot of Rommel's defense, pummeling the Axis Army with artillery and aircraft, clawing a way forward through barbed wire, minefield and booby trap...
...Banned Adolfo Lanus' Campo Minado (Minefield), the scandal-packed expose of Nazi activities in Argentina and the Administration's sly acquiescence...
Champion Found. As the sick, tired voice of Ortiz was stilled, another liberal spoke out. In defiance of the state of siege thousands of copies were privately circulated of a book called Campo Minado (Minefield) by Adolfo Lanus, editorialist of Argentina's great democratic daily La Prensa. Onetime Deputy and member of the Chamber's committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, Editor Lanus knows his country behind-the-scenes...
...passengers, some 500 died beyond the reach of Navy patrol boats that fearlessly whisked through the minefield...