Word: slog
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tactics of Delta warfare are far from ideal. Helicopters swoop in low and drop troops in the open. Other armed choppers orbit overhead, ready to help out if the enemy is in the trees, but the infantryman must slog forward, sinking up to his knees at times in oozing, smelly mud, wading through canals that cut across the fields every few hundred yards, and finally rushing into the village to overrun the enemy's positions. Vietnamese troops, who seldom weigh much more than 100 Ibs., move with considerable ease through the mud and can keep going from sunup...
...valleys and high mountains, marines were lifted by helicopter to begin a sweep through a 300-mile crescent of land, destroying Communists as they went. Their paths often led through jungle so thick that it seemed as dark at noontime as at night, and the troops were forced to slog single file, following each other closely so that no one would get lost...
Arnett and Faas are a curious double threat. Arnett is a four-year veteran of the war's slog. Though a correspondent, he has also taken outstanding pictures. Faas is the war's top photographer, but he reports so well that his colleagues immediately debrief him after a mission and send out stories under his byline. Since A.P.'s primary job is the day-to-day detailing of events, Arnett and Faas spend most of their time in the field; they have seen more fighting than the average G.I., know more about scrounging rides than any dozen...
...Hillsdale Col lege coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...cases, but most of the imprisoned straphangers rose to the occasion. Aboard one train, a man who called himself Lord Echo got everybody to join him in calypso songs; two hours later, astonished rescuers found 50 passengers dancing in the aisles. Under the East River, 350 passengers had to slog to safety through mud, water and scurrying rats...