Word: honeycomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night, Saigon turns into a honeycomb of private prison cells, the result of a dreary curfew; people withdraw into their houses, or hovels, in nervous anticipation of the next attack. The lights often dim and fade out, air conditioners collapse with a rattling whisper, and the streets outside lie dark and silent. Hundreds of wealthy South Vietnamese have forsaken the city for the seaside resort of Vung Tau. The Japanese government has ordered all its citizens who are not indispensable to leave the country. Many American civilians have taken to spending their nights at the heavily guarded, although frequently rocketed...
...bullet had hit one centimeter to the rear, the Senator would have been in fairly good condition," Cuneo explained curtly. "But it hit the mastoid, which is a spongy, honeycomb bone. Behind that is the thickest part of your head. That's solid. The little bullet would have just bounced off. But hitting the mastoid, it sent bone fragments shooting all over the Senator's brain. The bone fragments are the worst part, not the bullet fragments. The bullet is pretty sterile from the heat, and once the fragments are in the brain, they don't do any more damage...
Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...