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[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 4 Nov. 107: The hardest part of all this is the feeling of sitting around on our ferns, doing nothing, while all around us the war rages.
at fern, n.1
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 21 Aug. 101: There did ensue the most HELLACIOUS downpour ever witnessed by civilized man!
at hellacious, adj.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 21 Aug. 101: All the rest are [...] paper pushers, pill rollers and legal clerks.
at paper pusher (n.) under paper, n.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 23 May 170: Maybe I am just an old softy.
at softy, n.1
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 3 Feb. 64: I shot it at the corner of Bunker 2, blowing my gooney friend into Valhalla or wherever dead gooks go.
at gooney, n.
[US] in Bill Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 3 May 153: LZ Lynn was only eight klicks from the border.
at klick, n.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 2 May 148: His patients told him his English stunk.
at stink, v.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 17 Feb. 155: They hauled them up to the dust-off helo like a sack of potatoes.
at helo, n.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 21 June 156: There is something wrong with the water and it’s just killing everyone. Screaming yellow zonkers!
at screaming yellow zonkers! (excl.) under screaming, adj.
[US] B. Adler Vietnam Letters (2003) 20 Sept. 158: Two kids have even reupped to be back.
at re-up, v.
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