Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon has stated that the U.S. ground combat role has ended in Viet Nam [Nov. 22]. We grunts feel that since we are still out in the bush, we should at least get credit for it or be pulled out. Instead, people back home get the impression that we're sitting on fire bases playing volleyball and getting stoned. There are still Americans being killed and wounded out here, so to us the war is still very much alive...
...great day for a soldier," beamed the Indian field commander, bush-hatted Major General Gandharv Nagra, who led the first red-bereted troops in. "For us, it's like going into Berlin." The scene at the Dacca garrison's cantonment seemed bizarre to an outsider, although it was obviously perfectly natural for professional soldiers of the subcontinent. Senior officers were warmly embracing old friends from the other side, amid snatches of overheard conversation about times and places 25 years ago. Top generals lunched together in the mess, and around general headquarters it was like an old home week...
There was little joy in New Delhi, however, over the Nixon Administration's hasty declaration blaming India for the war in the subcontinent, or over U.N. Ambassador George Bush's remark that India was guilty of "aggression" (see box). Indian officials were also reported shocked by the General Assembly's unusually swift and one-sided vote calling for a cease-fire and withdrawal of troops...
...criticism last week for its policy on India and Pakistan. Two weeks ago, when war broke out between the two traditional enemies, a State Department spokesman issued an unusually blunt statement, placing the burden of blame on India. Soon after that, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush branded the Indian action as "aggression"-a word that Washington subsequently but lamely explained had not been "authorized...
...intercity passenger trains last May, opened its career by dumping some 200 trains. Now it plans a more welcome surprise. Beginning in mid January, the dwindling band of passengers on trains linking Boston, New York, Washington and Florida will see such strange sights as engineers wearing blue bush jackets with brass buttons and ticket sellers resplendent in double-breasted red vests, white visors and multicolored sleeve garters, looking as if they should be dealing out chips at a poker table. Male travelers will be diverted by 24 to 50 "passenger representatives" (Amtrak will not call them stewardesses) wearing a variety...