Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam. Many offenders have been strictly prosecuted. In 1 Corps in 1968, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nonetheless all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
Though Calley has made no effort to travel incognito, sallies outside the confines of Fort Benning have been painful. "Sometimes, like in airports," he says, "I can feel everybody staring at me. I have stages of feeling very paranoid. The psychological testing showed I was paranoid, but hell, there are people trying to kill...
...Magnuson put a brave face on what had happened-"this isn't a defeat, it's only a setback"-and said that it was the question of national priorities that did him in. "A lot of people talked about mass transit, the need for housing," he grumbled. "Hell, I'm for that...
...difficult making the adjustment," Bernhard said. "Hell, they even had me playing third base in high school. I was the only left-handed third baseman in Nevada. The first time they bunted to me. I threw the damn thing into left field...
LOWENSTEIN was infuriated by the disruption of the planned teaching of pro-Administration speakers at Sanders Theatre on March 26. Terming the demonstration a "damaging blow to the peace movement" and an example of "lunatic hooliganism," Lowenstein demanded, "What the hell are they afraid of letting these people say. If they're so big on violence why don't they enlist in the Vietcong and kill somebody...