Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...representatives of a uniquely virtuous generation, the most idealistic in history? (The antiwar protests died away when the draft ended in 1973.) Was the South Vietnamese army corrupt and cowardly? (ARVN units did not desert to the other side, and some 240,000 men gave their lives in the fight...
...hats or parts of old jungle fatigues. Sometimes one of them stands up after the lecture and tells his story. A few months ago, a veteran named John Murphy described how just 72 hours before he was to rotate back to the States, he found himself in a fire fight. He and a dozen buddies survived, in part because Murphy attacked a Viet Cong with the only weapon left, his teeth, which he sank into the guerrilla's neck. Soon afterward Murphy was flown home, and was making some travel arrangements in a phone booth in Seattle when he looked...
...Poverty and the war in Southeast Asia. And Johnson's problem remained America's problem for years: the nation somehow never quite squarely looked at Viet Nam and asked itself what it was doing there. A certain legerdemain was the official style of Viet Nam. Americans deliberately tried to fight without stirring up war passions at home--with the result that the passion, when it came, was one of revulsion. The Americans tried to fight a "limited war." The Vietnamese Communists were fighting an absolute...
...budget proposal calls for the termination of some domestic programs that members of both parties say they will fight to retain, including Amtrak passenger subsidies, the Small Business Administration, the Job Corps, Urban Development Action Grants and the rural housing program. Spending on farm programs would be reduced by $14.9 billion over three years, and the levels of some Medicare payments would be frozen...
...guess the title of the movie? A group of young men, considered outcasts from ordinary society, connives to engage in sexual congress with a group of attractive young women. They spy on the girls in the shower or while they are undressing for bed, start a food fight or something equally uplifting, crack a lot of dirty jokes, indulge in all sorts of crude and sometimes amusing behavior, and in the end triumph over the forces of stuffy convention, such as parents, policemen, school authorities and almost anybody else over...