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[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 275: T]he Hart Group [...] were fantastic and simply couldn’t do enough to try and help me. From start to finish, they were a class act to work for .
at class act, n.
[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 14: The articulated trucks were all old [...] Not one of the trucks or security vehicles would have been allowed on a European or US road. And yet our very lives depended on these clapped-out artics.
at artic, n.
[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 14: Not one of the trucks or security vehicles would have been allowed on a European or US road. And yet our very lives depended on these clapped-out artics.
at clapped(-out), adj.
[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 176: ‘It’s all about fucking with your mind. This war is being fought as much with TV cameras and the Internet as with assault rifles’ .
at fuck (with) someone’s mind (v.) under fuck with, v.
[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 136: [W]e were fighting mad now [...] I had completely lost the plot.
at lose the plot (v.) under plot, the, n.
[Ire] P. O’Keeffe Hidden Soldier 84: [T]he rifles were lost [...] because precise procedures were not followed, and that had to be somebody’s fault. And one of the things I’ve learned in life is that shit usually flows downhill.
at shit rolls downhill under shit, n.
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