Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies of military police outside Seoul to fire on advancing columns of revolutionary troops. He tipped off Premier John Chang to the plot, enabling him to hide out for two days. When informed of the coup by General Park on the telephone. General Chang told him he was drunk, snapped: "Go back home to bed." To U.S. officials. Chang described the revolt as merely "a riot." Only when the coup clearly proved to be successful did Chang join the winning side as "a sly, base opportunist." But later, the judges held, instead of backing General Park, Chang undermined...
...they want to be alone. For the first time, doolies regularly visit faculty homes. "They're discovering that an officer is like any other American," says one faculty member. "He has a wife, kids, and weeds in the lawn. We don't just play bridge and get drunk all the time...
...Africans regard your State Department's fumblings in the Congo and Katanga with the same apprehension as if watching a drunk trying to fix our only watch-by tearing out the only working part without thought of getting it together again...
...Fatherland. Among the guerrilla-diarists was Captain Nguyen Dinh Kieu, who, with 60 Viet Cong guerrillas, slipped into South Viet Nam last July. "From this day," he wrote, "I am in the fatherland again." He was a fretful commander. After noting that he had punished two guerrillas for getting drunk, he worried that deserters or poor march discipline might alert South Viet Nam Rangers. Some of his men balked at bloodshed, and Kieu wrote pedantically: "This can be remedied only by intense political activity during rest periods...
Distinct Speech. With the hypnotized fascination of an outsider, O'Hara still writes about the Eastern establishment-gentry who can tell, from a snarled sentence heard in the night, not only that the speaker is Harvard, Racquet Club and drunk, but what brand of 20-year-old Scotch he has been drinking. The fascination has endured for years, and so has Hemingway's crack that someone should take up a collection and send O'Hara to Yale...