Word: muggings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Harvard and Yale men have a talent for burying the hatchet, beer mug, or whatever may be handy and enjoying the year's biggest night together...
...bonce," meaning a chap who is handicapped by intelligence, good manners and a U-type accent. Boone, also facetiously known as "Gangster" or "Gangst," is fatally crippled by having a gentle nature. Like Gunga Din or Sir Philip Sidney, of whom Dinger has vaguely heard, Boone is a "real mug" with "no future." Yet for a while, Dinger and Boone are "chinas," or buddies.* They try to assert their individuality against the khaki mass, against superior officers who are "189% swine," and against the witless cruelty of a state that knows nothing but its own welfare. They form a club...