Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, Larrazábal received a steady stream of visitors, among them several of Venezuela's top Communists. It had been quite a welcome-except for one small thing. Somewhere along the way, one of his admirers had lifted Larrazábal's wallet, containing...
...Open Wallet. As dusk fell, the Viet Cong slipped into sampans and escaped down the darkened canal with their dead and wounded. "Everything we did went wrong." complained a U.S. adviser. A battalion of government paratroopers, assigned the job of blocking the Reds' escape route, was airdropped into the wrong position. And when government artillery at last started to shell the wooded Viet Cong positions, their rounds were zeroed in on their own troops, killed three of their...
Worst of all, the battered Vietnamese troops showed little interest in pursuing the Reds. Instead, they sloshed through the paddyfields, picking up their casualties-68 dead and 100 wounded-and poking through the downed helicopters. On the cabin floor of one of the choppers lay the wallet of a dead U.S. adviser-open to a picture of his wife and child. In all, three U.S. advisers-Captain Good, Sergeant William Deal of Mays Landing, N.J., and Specialist 4 Donald Braman of Radcliff, Ky.-were killed in the ambush, and six more wounded. The dead brought to 56 the number...
...people, floated within reach (four others sank with the severed wing or drifted away), and onto it clambered 51 men and women. As water sloshed into the bobbing raft, Navigator Samuel Nicholson screamed, "Bail, for God's sake!" One man tried to scoop the water out with his wallet. For the most part, discipline was excellent, but there were exceptions. One survivor tried to pull a woman aboard, but "men poured over us. She kept crying, 'Please let me on the raft,' but men kept coming. I couldn't hold on. She disappeared...
...oversupply of nervous energy. He characteristically sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...