Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was probably better prophecy than analysis. But the Album had gotten hold of something. The freshman Class of '42 couldn't help but feel itself at the tail end of a dimly understood upheaval. If only a few things were substantially changed that year, everything, suddenly, was under scrutiny and attack; the reports and the headlines almost tripped over each other...
...really vicious dogfight," recalls Olds, "sort of a general melee with our planes and theirs rolling, twisting and diving all over the place." Olds squeezed off five missiles, and two of the heat-seeking Sidewinders slammed home in enemy tail pipes. With Dawn Patrol grace, he adds: "Both pilots were able to bail out, I'm glad to say." In the second of the day's kills, Olds dived on the fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop...
...sour cream, drops her ostrich tail...
Linked up head and tail like circus elephants by their "escape ropes," each humping half a hundredweight of gear,* the muzzles of their rifles still taped to keep out gunk, the scouts took advantage of distant artillery salvos to mask their footfalls on the way back to a prearranged retrieval zone. Brown, in the lead, groped his way back through the blackness by memorizing the map and counting his own steps; each time his left foot hit the ground 67 times, he calculated the team had covered 100 meters. Back at the landing zone, Brown's whispered message filtered...
...Swishing Tail. Many of the enemy dead wore tiger-striped uniforms and had gone into battle barefoot, their shoes tied around their necks. They had been so certain of victory that several carried English-Vietnamese phrase books. Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt arrived a few hours later to inspect the battlefield. He had barely begun when the cry "Incoming!" went up and three mortar rounds boomed in. Walt and his staff dived for foxholes for the third time in ten days -and the closest call. One round hit only 15 feet from the general. Walt was unhurt...