Word: slugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed a notable exception to the rule, as Communist troops in force stood their ground in a prolonged fire fight. But again last week, in two fierce engage ments near the "Iron Triangle" north of Saigon, Viet Cong troops surprised U.S. Army units - and then stayed around to boldly slug...
...Slug for Slap. On some campuses, counter-protesters engaged in debates or separate rallies. In Detroit, the opposition sang The Star-Spangled Banner over and over, all but drowning out the Vietniks. In Chicago and Oakland, Calif., demonstrators were pelted with raw eggs, and cops broke up a few mild scuffles. The leading rank of 10,000 paraders in New York City got doused with red paint. Even pleaders for peace can become aggressive. At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a hotbed of anti-Viet Nam sentiment (see preceding story), a middle-aged woman lightly slapped Biology Senior Alan...
...United Nations grows ever more helpless in preventing conflict, the small non-nuclear countries have found limited wars to be a functional means of settling disputes. The very possession of doomsday weaponry by the U.S. and Russia has forestalled the main event, but lesser powers feel free to slug it out in dozens of other arenas...
...ended nominally in victory but actually in absurdity. One contingent bumped up against a Viet Cong patrol and caught a burst of machine-gun fire. A private was hit five times, but the bullets were spent, and he limped off to a helicopter for evacuation. Another marine caught a slug right up the barrel of his M-14 rifle-a one-in-a-million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto...
...looked skeptical. It didn't occur to me he might be about to slug...