Word: prang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major test of ARVN stamina may take place in the Central Highlands, where some 7,000 North Vietnamese regulars have been pressing the ARVN's 23rd Division. In one engagement near Bu Prang, 110 miles north of Saigon, North Vietnamese troops charged an ARVN battalion, creating such confusion that two South Vietnamese A-37 jets, called in to provide air support, accidentally bombed ARVN troops...
...third day of rebellion, 50 partisans bring up a German fieldpiece, and in a savagely spectacular skirmish prang two enemy tanks. The German commandant takes a hard look at his position. He holds the city, but he might as well be holding a nest of vipers. The Allies are advancing, and he obviously cannot fight them and the Neapolitans too. Humbly he requests the victorious vulgarians to grant him a truce; ingloriously the Wehrmacht scuttles out of town...
...sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...