Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a wait of an hour, I had walked out of three circus tents in Arlington National Cemetery with Tinsley's name written on a piece of white cardboard which was strung around my neck. The two of us were taking a four-and-half-mile walk through Washington in the cold, the rain, and the dark...
...happened, did he think that he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...
...stab him. Stab em, that's right, and when they see several of their buddies lying in the street severely wounded, they'll get the message." Only minutes before the same officer had told his men, "The most effective place to insert the bayonet is in the neck or crotch; these areas are soft and vulnerable; if you don't kill your man, you'll surely disable him." The bayonet instruction was oriented toward the battlefield, but no one made the distinction between one battlefield and another...
Once at Symphony Hall, the problem of seating develops. It is most fashionable to hire a table on the floor at a cost of five or six dollars-per persons. Hiring a table gives you the privilege of sitting uncomfortably and craning your neck to see the stage, as well as ordering from the Pops wine list. The wine list includes such delicacies as New York Burgundy and just about everything Pastene has ever made, as well as-inexplicably-Chateau Latour, year unspecified. A truly adventurous spirit may even order Pops Punch...
...cockney medic (Michael Caine), who alternates between bandaging the wounded and needling his commander. A reluctant Japanese-language specialist seconded from the American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance Percival, Percy Herbert) whose only function is to keep the humor flying by calling each other "nits" and "fairies," and to get killed...