Word: craps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker to concrete bunker, hidden under the thick jungle canopy. The "floating crap game," as COSVN is known in Saigon, is often widely dispersed. As they searched for it, the troops found elaborate underground bunkers almost everywhere they turned: plucking a pineapple from the ground at an innocent-looking farm in the Fishhook, an astonished G.I. discovered that he had opened the disguised door...
...stopped, at the traffic light. The girl on the passenger side would soon turn away from the driver and glance out, and there was Spider, just looking at her. She'd jump, and then reach for the lock. No one got out of the car to give Spider any crap. Spider had friends anyway...
...latest speech would never have taken such public action and would probably not have wanted to affiliate ourselves with a group such as Professor Mendelsohn's." one of the group said yesterday. "But the President's unwarranted actions and totally unacceptable pre-1968 rhetoric are a lot of crap...
There is a certain hostility between the grooms and the jockeys. "The rider don't make the race," Irving said. "The horse makes the rider, the trainer, and the owner. The jocks do exactly what the trainer says. They get all the glory; we get all the crap...
...came into the box. "Oh. the horses have no tails, have no tails. Oh. the horses have no tails, have no tails. "He stopped singing and began grinning. Then he stopped grinning and began talking. He had just finished a poker game and was planning to shoot crap after the races...