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Agent Orange

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Agent Orange
n.
A herbicide that contains trace amounts of the toxic contaminant dioxin, used in the Vietnam War to defoliate areas of forest.

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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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