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Agent Orange |
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Agent Orange n (Military) a highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation and crop destruction, esp by US forces during the Vietnam War [named after the identifying colour stripe on its container]
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"Veterans who served on vessels in nearby
waters had the same risk of exposure to Agent Orange as those who served
on adjacent land," he said. Once he hits the States, the kooky kiwi's irrepressibility
works its magic on everyone from the cross-dressing night manager of a
Sunset Boulevard motel to a Valley used car salesman, a lonely desert
widow and a young soldier just back from a little operation in Vietnam
involving something called Agent Orange. It occurs to me that we have evolved from fighting with fists and
rocks, to swords and spears, to guns and bombs and Agent Orange and
finally to nuclear warfare. |
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