Word: rickshaw
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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They had a serious purpose: to discover the secret that enabled the Communists to turn Vietnamese rickshaw boys and coolies into an army strong enough to humble France. Picaresque Captain Boisfeuras decided that Communist propaganda works because "it touches something deep, something real, in a man." Cerebral Captain Esclavier concluded that the West in its colonial wars suffers "from conscience and remorse; that's why we're losing." What is needed to win. declared Colonel Raspèguy, is shrewd, cunning missionaries "who preach, but keep one hand on the butts of their revolvers in case anyone interrupts...