Word: yanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around the world to communicate with orbiting U.S. astronauts. Washington fatalistically agreed to dismantle the station, then stood by quietly as 5,000 Zanzibaris-egged on by Russian sailors-coursed through the capital carrying signs that read, "Go Home Yank." But at the same time, a U.S. Navy task force, known as the "Concord Squadron" and headed by the attack carrier Bon Homme Richard, steamed into the Indian Ocean-merely on a good-will mission, the Pentagon pointed out. Still, all that heavy-caliber good will might have a sobering effect...
Trouble is, it is India in the year 1944. There's a war on, and at command HQ the best interests of Allied unity seem to demand the death penalty for a Yank who kills a limey. "He's got to hang," observes British Medico Trevor Howard. Only Mitchum thinks that justice must stand "apart from power and apart from might." All he has to do is locate the army psychiatrist who was shipped off to the bush because he wrote a medical report diagnosing Wynn's insanity. While looking, Mitchum consorts with France Nuyen, a plump...
...leadership will be forthcoming, despite two government overthrows in Saigon in three months. "What you've got to learn in Viet Nam," says a U.S. Army major in the Delta, "is that the name of the game is frustration, and you simply have to live with it." Another Yank keeps a card in his wallet to pull out in moments of despair. It reads: "Patience...
Pursuit of Angst. What happens is a howling shame. Roger is defeated in conversation by an undergraduate "Jewish jackanapes" who enrages him by professing identical opinions. He tests his conviction that "these Yank college girls were at it all the time," and is bitten severely in his fat neck. He bloats with rage after a faculty party when he guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged...
...flew at will over the Soviet Union, brought back miles of film showing target areas, defenses, terrain, mountains, lakes, forests. In all that time, Soviet MIG pilots swarmed helplessly below. On at least one occasion, a Soviet pilot, straining to climb to within U-2 range, radioed, "We kill, Yank!" And the U-2 pilot replied: "Okay, try it!" The pilot was safe in his dare...