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[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 9: There was genuine talent in it [...] as well as the whiz-bang stuff.
at whiz bang, adj.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 78: Doctors, nurses, everyone but the patients, washed outdoors in cold water, and went to a Chic Sale with a canvas wall around it.
at chic sale, n.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 103: Not to go branded a man as a coward. To go might make him a slight hero or a dead duck.
at dead duck, n.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 273: We had looked all day goggle-eyed at more Germans than we have ever expected to see.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 238: Lennie jumped out of his jeep, pulled his .45 and yelled at the heavily armed enemy.
at forty-five, n.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 182: All men in the outfit were instructed to refer to Italians as ‘Guineas’.
at guinea, n.1
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 30: He spied two tommy-gunners walking along the street. He rushed out and asked them if they would guard the ammunition.
at tommy-gunner, n.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 43: They were really roughing it.
at rough it, v.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 101: When the flak over Bizerte had been especially bad, that was a ‘rugged’ trip. Anything extraordinarily tough was ‘rugged.’.
at rugged, adj.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 271: I just dumped that s.o.b. in a crick and took off from there.
at s.o.b., n.
[US] E. Pyle Here Is Your War (1945) 101: They ‘sweat out’ a mission, or they ‘sweat out’ the weather, or they ‘sweat out’ a promotion. It meant that they waited, or they fought, or did anything hard that took some time.
at sweat (it) out (v.) under sweat, v.2
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