Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By his own account, Bailey has an IQ of 170, though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and...
Admiral David McDonald, chief of naval operations, recently returned from Viet Nam, translated this argument into flesh-and-blood terms last week. "The bombing," he reported, "is substantially slowing down the infiltration of men and supplies into South Viet Nam, and the slowdown has saved an awful lot of lives...
For six weeks, some 11,000 of Walt's Marines, together with two battalions of South Vietnamese soldiers, have been keeping watch on the Demilitarized Zone, where several North Vietnamese regiments were once readying to cross to the South. The North Vietnamese now seem to have lost all desire...
Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the...
Boudin's novel style delayed his recognition in Paris, but discerning Americans were soon buying his "marines," and last week many of those still in U.S. collections, as well as some canvases from France, were gathered into his first American retrospective by Manhattan's Hirschl and Adler gallery...