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The Flying Fighter choose

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[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 267: I was detailed to a good squadron near the ‘Big Smoke’.
at Big Smoke, n.
[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 289: I went back and resumed the ‘chin-chin’ with Kerr and the other boys.
at chin, n.2
[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 334: Conked. A new word which is taken from the Russian language and which means stopped or killed.
at conk, v.2
[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 13: There is eternal emnity between kooties and fleas.
at cootie, n.
[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 285: I had the consolation of knowing that so far I was not ‘pushing up the daisies’.
at push up (the) daisies, v.
[US] E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 210: Cameron [...] had the habit of calling the French ‘puddle jumpers,’ on account of their excitability.
at puddlejumper, n.
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