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In Pharoah’s Army choose

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[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 212: We were such bad medicine together that her mother [...] went back to Washington to get away from us.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 126: [T]he eagerness to show you that even if they do know how to have a good time they can by God get down to cases too.
at down to cases under down, adv.1
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 91: [T]he Chinook was a couple of feet over my head, just hanging there, all lebenty zillion tons of it.
at eleventy-eleven, n.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 58: In my OCS class I’d finished forty-ninth out of forty-nine, the class goat.
at goat, n.1
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 56: ‘The Best Is Yet to Come.’ That was our big gun. I laid down the melody while Hugh did crazy riffs around it.
at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 156: I had brought him [i.e. a black colleague] to a redneck gutbucket .
at gutbucket, n.1
[US] (con. 1968) T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 162: Sergeant Benet finished his beer. ‘Time we hatted up,’ he said .
at hat (up) (v.) under hat, n.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 204: TI took her to the bar [...] The moment I saw Jan inside the place, in her white dress and cool, manifest sanity, I saw it for what it was—a hole.
at hole, n.1
[US] (con. 1968) T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 173: ‘I’ve got negative intel. Nobody tells me squat’ .
at intel, n.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 114: We had a couple of drinks when we got back [...] and got pretty loose.
at loose, adj.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 28: [M]y assumption that his ability to run different numbers on other people meant that he would run numbers on me.
at do a number on (v.) under number, n.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 146: We stayed up and had a beer after Shaw and Sergeant Benet hit the rack.
at hit the rack (v.) under rack, n.2
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 205: I couldn’t tell [...] if he actually thought he resembled a person with a mustache or was just riffing on the idea.
at riff, v.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 156: ‘[T]wo months. It took me longer than that to get things scoped out down here’ .
at scope, v.
[US] (con. 1968) T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 206: ‘That was some bad shit, man, Whirl War One. [...] I mean, millions of assholes going south, right?’.
at go south (v.) under south, adv.
[US] (con. 1967) T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 142: They always had friends in the house, journalists, visitors from the States, cryptic young officers from up-country [...] It was like an ultracool fraternity.
at ultracool, adj.
[US] T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 156: ‘That’s when my tour’s up [...] Less than two months.’ He stared at me. ‘Fifty-four and a wake-up,’ I said .
at wake-up, n.
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