Word: binh
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Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...about its economy are still made in the North. The central government takes 80% of the city's annual tax revenues. Officials from Hanoi are assigned the top jobs at local state-owned factories and trading firms. Even the bulk of the city's electricity comes from the Hoa Binh Dam, 930 miles to the north. "The government can satisfy some demands, not all," says Peoples Council president Pham Tran Truc. "For example, we are not satisfied with the electricity supply . " At which point the lights in his office flicker out. A coincidence, to be sure. But Truc offers...
...Connecticut last April, with five friends from a Buddhist youth group assisting him, Binh Gia Pham doused himself with gasoline, flicked a lighter and exploded into flames. The 43-year-old immigrant was protesting attempts by the Vietnamese government to suppress Buddhism...
...investigating allegations that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown agreed to accept $700,000 to press for the end of the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam. As first reported in U.S. News & World Report and confirmed to Time by law-enforcement sources, a Florida businessman named Ly Thanh Binh claims a former associate of his boasted of enlisting Brown's aid shortly after he was nominated as Secretary. The FBI took the claims seriously enough to conduct a field investigation, but many of the case's facts remain unresolved, and no evidence has been presented to a grand jury. Brown categorically...
...learned French and English, read voraciously in three languages and wrote passionate denunciations of communism. He joined the South Vietnamese army, then worked for the U.S. embassy in Saigon. In the last, worst years of the Vietnam War, he wrote a column for the newspaper Hoa Binh...