Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five hours of sleep a night, live on C rations and accustom themselves to an eerie and tense life during their temporary duty. There is seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across the zone, they regularly shout obscenities back and forth in the other...
...pity that they call it a muffin house, because everything besides the muffins is a delight. The sirloin steak--the Pewter Pot's only substantial meal--reminds you of the good old days when steaks were thick and juicy, and also of a backyard barbecue. There are no fancy sauces, just good olde fashioned American fare--baked beans and clam chowder and suchlike...
Down the Panhandle. Ashmore and Baggs were making their second visit to North Viet Nam. After 14 months, Baggs reported, the North's military and transport equipment had notably improved. Antiaircraft guns pointed skyward in thick clusters, and the often-bombed roads and makeshift pontoon bridges rumbled under a steady flow of new trucks. On the road from Hanoi to Haiphong, Baggs counted 157 trucks, then gave up counting as they kept coming. U.S. reconnaissance shows that many of those trucks are moving at high speed down into the panhandle near the border with South Viet...
Arsonists in Pique. The U Minh Dark Forest has served as a refuge for pirates, fugitives and guerrillas throughout Vietnamese history. Crisscrossed with hidden canals and with vegetation so thick it has resisted all attempts at defoliation, the 1,550-sq. mi. U Minh is a tangled swampland crawling with snakes, boars, tigers-and virtually untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest...
Excitement ruled both the performers and the audience. It was a small group by Sanders standards, but thick with sons of the Glee Club. That accounts for loud outbursts between the numbers and for the sing-along when they inevitably came to the Harvard songs...