Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birds chattered and giggled overhead. A long-tailed black lizard bobbed its head in the heat. Then the first line of the 55th went in, and the lizard was suddenly gone. The bush erupted with sharp bursts of automatic fire. An incoming mortar round decapitated a palm tree and left three men writhing and mangled. The periodic silences between bursts were broken by frightened screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said...
...Japanese," he observed, "are perhaps physically the least attractive of all the races of the world with the exception of Pygmies and Hottentots." He lamented the "flat, expressionless faces" of his countrymen, went on to describe their "disproportionately large head, elongated trunk and short, often bowed legs." Japanese tourists, he recalled, often have to pay twice as much as other foreigners for a prostitute's favors in the great cities of the world, and he observed that "Negroes, their pigmentation of skin notwithstanding, are at least taller and straighter than the Japanese and perhaps have a greater sex appeal...
...Went out on strike...
Incriminating Statements. Orozco was accused of shooting down another man after a quarrel outside a Dallas bar back in 1966. He later returned to his boardinghouse and went to sleep. At about 4 a.m., four policemen burst into the room and began to question him. Orozco not only admitted that he had been at the scene of the shooting but also confessed to owning a gun that proved to be the murder weapon. At Orozco's trial, one of the arresting officers was permitted to testify to these incriminating statements...
...blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow on the head inflicted by a cop. The police-fund drive should be bigger, Royko conceded, because "Seminarian Ries contributed much less to the convention drama than did the city's policemen. He just lay there and bled, while they went on to even greater deeds." The American struck back in an editorial, calling Royko "an overworked humorist" who apparently believes that "demanding fair trials for policemen just shows you're prejudiced...