Word: awol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumped four times that high. The reason: South Vietnamese believed that U.S. airpower alone would win the war; hence, they were no longer needed. But when the Viet Cong stepped up their attacks at the beginning of the monsoon season, many of the deserters returned. The army's AWOL level alone has dropped...
...what happened next remains fuzzy. But on Oct. 1, Mintkenbaugh was summarily fired from his real estate job. Next morning, after withdrawing $2,000 from his bank account, Johnson disappeared. More than a month later Johnson surrendered to Army authorities in Reno, Nev., was subsequently court-martialed for being AWOL and given a routine job, well away from classified material, at Washington's Fort McNair. As for Mintkenbaugh, he went to California, had a little chat with his brother, and turned himself...
...recovery). As it happens, Dailey lost-but his seemingly preposterous suit was no surprise in the strange world of admiralty law. Before he got off the hook, Dailey's employer had to fight up to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and prove that the seaman had been AWOL and was a chronic alcoholic to boot...
...rights to his next three books, despite the fact that Jones is only halfway through the first. Dell also signed Irwin Shaw by offering him 100% of the reprint royalties. Pocket Books created Trident Press for the sole purpose of encouraging Harold (The Carpetbaggers) Robbins to go AWOL from Knopf...
...mythification, Jim Copp and Ed Brown, are off on another of their nonsensical crusades ("Oh, never have we ever been on such a trip as this/ We're headed for Flumdiddle, but/ We don't know where it is"), this time accompanied by titled tin pans, AWOL toy soldiers, and that masterly comic creation The Hen With...