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used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock
- Thousands of Viet Cong soldiers have been killed—as have thousands of innocent Vietnamese peasants.p. 155.6
- Gunners aboard American helicopters have free rein to open fire on the peasants who turn and run when they see Hueys come sweeping in over the treetops.p. 155.9
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