Word: sniveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cold Pop & "Snivel." Feddersen's real coup in Viet Nam was the establishment of a private, self-contained, ship-to-site supply route-an exercise that by his count took 17 steps. First he sounded out a Saigon source who, for twelve cases of C rations, revealed the whereabouts of a warehouse that needed 100 shipping pallets. To get the pallets, Feddersen traded surplus steel cargo boxes (bummed from the Army) for enough lumber and nails to build 200 pallets. Another army company built the pallets for Feddersen, keeping 100 of them as payment. Feddersen then gave...
Then, in 1959, Glenn resolutely set out to snivel his way into the toughest program of all: Project Mercury. He started with two handicaps: he lacked a college degree, and, at 37, he was considered to be an old man. But Glenn managed to get permission to go along as an "observer" with one prime candidate of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. When the candidate failed an early test, recalls Rainforth, "Johnny stepped up, chest high, and offered himself as a candidate. They took...