Word: witlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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 of two-the "indes" or independents-against the "packers," the Pack Faction, whose boots, they realize, they must lick or wear. Their club HQ is in the branches of a huge oak, where, in the ancient fashion...