Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next to the Viet Cong, the helicopter has been the greatest threat G.I.s have had to face in Viet Nam; chopper mishaps account for most of the 2,448 Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate...
Here Mrs. Nixon switched to the President's helicopter, Marine Corps One, to survey the damaged area. In the chopper, she hovered over tents arrayed below. In the background was the mighty Huascarán mountain, 22,000 feet high, from which the avalanche of ice and debris shaken loose by the quake had descended upon the villages. Observing the remnants of the town of Yungay, Mrs. Nixon said: "The mud is beginning to recede now. Eventually they will find the bodies...
...should have. Last week, bound for a monastery 30 miles away to celebrate Mass, Makarios strapped himself inside the presidential helicopter just outside his palace in Nicosia. When the silver-and-white chopper reached rooftop level, automatic gunfire spat out from a high school across the street, riddling the craft. Makarios was uninjured, but the pilot, Army Major Zacharias Papadoyiannis, 38, was wounded seriously in the abdomen. Nonetheless, though he grazed a tree as he swung desperately from the line of fire, he managed to set the craft down on a 12-ft. by 12-ft. open square. Then, mumbling...
...action-comic wanderers, Wyatt and Billy, and the mindless violence of their redneck antagonists. "Dennis Hopper and I represent a complete misunderstanding of what freedom's all about," he claims. "Both concepts are untenable, whether it's scoring and wanting to retire to Florida and ride around on your chopper, or whether it's just making money off of people...