Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson said the library had reached "mutual agreement" with the Marines, who have set up a table in the lobby for the past five years, that no such arrangement would be permitted this year.
The librarians, Wilson said, "have always been very leery of having any sort of advertising in the library." He said he had personally considered the presence of VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Marines an "intrusion" on the academic character of the library even when they were permitted to recruit...
Savory Settlement. The Bonin Islands, which include the bloody battleground of Iwo Jima where 21,000 Japanese and 4,189 American Marines died in early 1945, is a craggy archipelago of little modern-day strategic value, though it is just 700 miles southeast of Japan. Originally settled by 19th century...
Hochmuth was also the first American general officer to lose his life in Viet Nam. (Air Force Major General William Crumm was killed last July in a B-52 collision over the South China Sea.) A lean, laconic Texan who delighted in raising both flowers and barbells, Hochmuth led the...
Named within hours as Hochmuth's successor was Major General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 55, a Colorado-born veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, where he won the Navy Cross and picked up a load of Japanese shrapnel that still causes him to limp at the end of a ten...