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Word: flak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon was getting flak closer to home as well, from 17 Senators and 47 Representatives who announced support for M-day. A raft of critical resolutions surfaced on Capitol Hill, showing defiance of Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's plea for a moratorium of his own?a 60-day pause in attacks on Nixon's war policies. Two freshman Democratic Senators, Iowa's Harold Hughes and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton, demanded extensive reform of the Saigon government ?within 60 days. Idaho's Frank Church and Oregon's Mark Hatfield asked for "a more rapid withdrawal of American troops"; George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...flak from Harvard fans Saturday was punter Gary Singleterry. Here he was featured in the game program, and next thing he's littering the stands with souvenir footballs off the side of his foot. But there was an explanation. First, the wind. But, more important, there was B. U.'s number 44. His name is Bruce Taylor, and he's an All-American who averaged 18 yards on punt returns last year. There was no way he could do that if the ball landed in the stands...

Author: By Bennett ? Beack, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...that mattered little on Hill 937. When the battle was over-while helicopters flew out stacks of holed American helmets and bloody flak jackets-TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm found a piece of cardboard and a black 101st neckerchief pinned by a G.I. knife to a blackened tree trunk. "Hamburger Hill," a soldier had scrawled on the cardboard, and someone else had added the words, "Was it worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE BATTLE FOR HAMBURGER HILL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...confirmation of this patriotic cliché emerged from a military study intended to evaluate flak vests, helmets and first-aid procedures. Using helicopters, 62 Army and Marine interviewers were able to reach 7,600 wounded men while their memories of the fighting were still fresh - often within 30 minutes after they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Body: The Hero in Every Man | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Angels,"* but aside from one swastika that appeared on a crash helmet (it was ordered rubbed off), there is little of the Hell's Angel type in the four young soldiers. Their helmets are camouflaged, they carry .45s, and instead of leather gear, they wear flak jackets and fatigues. "Back in the world," as they refer to the U.S., they all grew up around engines, and Viet Nam has never seemed so like home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: And Now a Vroom | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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