Word: numbah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...
...going around the hinterlands to give the boys something to break the monotony," he monotoned. Big John's visit was also a change of pace for the Saigon kids who'd seen some of his horse operas in dubbed versions. They ran after him whooping, "Hey, you! Numbah One Cowboy...
...NUMBAH ONE (from pidgin English) means the best. NUMBAH TEN, until recently, meant the absolute worst. As the war has grown more arduous, NUMBAH TEN THOU' has come to describe a man or a circumstance 1,000 times worse than numbah ten, if possible-and far worse than MICKEY MOUSE, a versatile expression that labels an activity superfluous, unheroic, fouled up, or all three...
BOONIES, short for boondocks, is an unaffectionate term for the back country where the fighting and the living are rough. BOONIES NUMBAH...
...most decorative (as well as one of our few feminine stringers) is Pamela Sanders, who, to use the highest accolade in Southeast Asia, is "Numbah One," in Laos as well as Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand, to pilots and mechanics of Huey helicopters and Air Force bombers. She is a much respected friend of local politicians, international truce inspectors as well as G.I.s, has taken part in countless dangerous missions in the past year. Recently, spending five days at Neutralist General Kong Le's headquarters in the Plain of Jars, she was enlisted to teach English to members...