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Strike Command choose

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[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 115: So good-by, you hard-assed old bastard.
at hard-ass, adj.
[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 11: ‘Want to turn and run? [...] Or play a little guts-ball and try for the tankers?’ K. P. Green voted for gutsball. And now the sweatout began.
at guts ball, n.
[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 129: At least he’ll not be able to knock it as ‘busy work’ and ‘brownie points’.
at brownie point, n.
[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 93: That cotton picker would sure have been delayed if he hadn’t hit the drogue [HDAS].
at cotton-picker, n.
[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 77: These songs, as the fighter pilots say, ‘really tug at the old pumper’.
at pumper, n.
[US] F. Harvey Strike Command 11: ‘Want to turn and run? [...] Or play a little guts-ball and try for the tankers?’ K. P. Green voted for gutsball. And now the sweatout began.
at sweat (it) out (v.) under sweat, v.2
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