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Word: quantico (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lawmen face in real life. Hired from a role-playing company called Day By Day Associates, these make- believe meanies are paid $8 an hour. The company's roster of 60 role players includes part-time students, the wives of Leathernecks stationed at the neighboring Marine Corps base at Quantico, retirees and off-duty firemen and policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...yesterday, last week. Or was it last month? Certainly it can't be 15 years since the U.S.-supported regime folded like a pup tent and the remaining American Marines executed what the tactical instructors at Quantico euphemistically called a "retrograde movement" from the roof of the fortress-like U.S. embassy annex. Today chickens run helter skelter through the American compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam 15 Years Later | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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