Word: leech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With all sense of obstacle removed, The African Queen evokes all the tension of a journey from Harvard Square to Park Street; only once does Huston create a moving conflict, when Allnut, effectively de-leeched, realizes he must go back into the leech-infested swamp in order to extricate the boat from the muddy canal...
...shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made for a writer like S.L.A. Marshall, who can reconstruct a small-unit action so that it takes on the intimate immediacy of a leech beneath a platoon sergeant's collar...
...dare display on the cover of a once respectable magazine this case of arrested development, this leech who capitalizes on the female form...
Once they get there, the G.I.s of the future will use many techniques and devices developed from the military's experience in Viet Nam. The Army's Limited War Laboratory has already shipped 22 projects to Viet Nam for evaluation-from leech repellent to treetop landing pads-and is currently working on 85 more. More important, the U.S. will need to put into practice the sad lessons of Viet Nam. To stop trouble before it reaches the big shooting stage, it will have to learn the art of pacification better than it has. The U.S. will need...
...happen. Last week, in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, some 519 businessmen crawled out of the woodwork and endorsed Barry Goldwater for President. Unlike the Johnson businessmen whom they view as a leech on the body politic sustaining themselves by their "vital interest in continued big government," the 519 claimed that their success was based, predictably enough, on "free enterprise...