The battle for inclusion represents the latest installment in both parties' struggle to seize the great American middle ground.

This beach is the primary American nesting ground for the turtles and the focus of a major federal effort to save them.

American ground and air action destroyed other North Korean tanks during the day southwest of the town.

"Doesn't this make you want to kiss the American ground you walk on every morning?"

Padre Island is the principal American nesting ground for the turtles and the center of an intensive 20-year federal effort to save them from extinction.

But when Joseph gets his subjects to familiar American ground, his narrative rights itself.

The idea of common American ground once again beckons invitingly to both right and left, though we are plainly far from ready to start moving together.

But he added, "If the Congress gives in to extremist pressure and walks away from this bipartisan American common ground, they will kill welfare reform."

The American ground was wild and new, a place where a blooming foreigner needed all the help he could get.

Now their paths had crossed in the greatest mass murder on American ground.