Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is the frustration of guerrilla warfare in a hostile countryside, where the enemy wears no uniform, strikes from ambush, and where women do fire rifles and a ten-year-old selling pop by day may be a demolition expert by night. Kids in Quang Ngai have been known to profiteer in land mines: they can get 200 piastres from the V.C. for planting one, then disclose its location to the G.I.s for a bigger...
...granfalloon is apt to have its uniform. But somewhere, invisible to the intruder, some men wore birthday suits...
Neither of Hurley's parents, both natives of Ireland, likes football. His father thinks it is a dirty game, and his mother is afraid that he might be injured. But Neil's two older brothers encouraged him, and he played-by sneaking out of the house with his uniform in a bag, and getting dressed for practice in the coach...
Adam and I got a ride for about 20 miles up the Pike and extended our thumbs again. One car whizzed by and stopped to pick up a soldier in uniform who was standing down the road. We ran down to join the party, but the soldier closed the car door quickly behind him, and the car whizzed on. Adam was angry, but I understood perfectly. After all, what had we done for our country...
...82nd Airborne were brought in to replace the MP's. As they stepped into line, one by one, they stamped to attention and slapped the metal butts of their carbines on the concrete making a frightening sound. While the MP's looked like a bunch of frightened kids in uniform, the paratroopers looked tough and disciplined. The next two hours proved that they were as tough as they looked; as the soldiers inched further into the crowd more people were beaten and torn away from those who tried to hold them...