jumping visa n.— «Two Vietnamese detainees escaped from Maribyrnong Detention Centre on Saturday and a third broke his leg trying to jump the fence yesterday. The two scaled the facility’s fence following a volleyball game. “They...
user anthropologist n.— «He’s also sometimes referred to as a “user anthropologist.” To an outsider, the job can seem decidedly oblique. His mission, broadly defined, is to peer into the lives of other people, accumulating as much...
shut up and color v. phr.— «At Squadron Officer’s Scholl they kept emphasizing the helplessnes of the Vietnamese and how we could bomb them at will. When I asked why, if that was true, we negotiated a settlement that basically had us as...
UXO n.— «The painstaking, dangerous work of removing unexploded ordnance, or UXO as it is known, is taking much longer in Vietnam than anyone wishes, researchers and ordnance experts say.» —“Hidden bombs stalk Vietnamese as states...
plane people n.pl.— «Currently, about 2,500 of these Vietnamese “plane people” are leaving each month under the program, refugee officials said. “This number is roughly equal to the total monthly arrivals in the region...
tombstoning n.— «The eight-man teams spend 60 to 90 days…preventing such abuses as “tombstoning” on the payroll (the Vietnamese commanders’ practice of collecting pay for dead or departed soliders, rather than replacing...