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The Compensations of War choose

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[US] G. Bowerman diary 16 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 36: Did one of the hated ‘aristos’ crouch in terror in one of these dark corners.
at aristo, n.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 16 Aug. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 10: I [...] can now yell out ‘four bells’ with the best of ’em.
at bell, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 6 Mar. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 18: We receive our pay 184 francs for a ‘buck’.
at buck, n.3
[US] G. Bowerman diary 26 Aug. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 16: Say bud what’s your name?
at bud, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 23 Nov. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 49: She was a darned good bus. But Fiats are too heavy & burn too much gas.
at bus, n.2
[US] G. Bowerman diary 1 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 25: We were so completely fagged out [...] I was never so done up.
at done up, adj.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 6 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 27: It wasn’t exactly a ‘gravy’ job.
at gravy, adj.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 9 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 31: Oh you green horns!
at greenhorn, n.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 18 Sept. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 20: All the Fords are ready to roll.
at roll, v.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 6 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 27: As usual I get ‘stung’ and spend the whole day unloading wooden barrack sections from a freight car.
at stung, adj.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 19 Aug. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 11: A careful listener could compile quite a history of this attack [...] and ‘sub’ attacks.
at sub, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 19 Oct. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 38: I employ my time washing and greasing my old tub.
at tub, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 15 Sept. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 19: Went to a very good concert at the ‘Y.’.
at Y, n.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 6 Mar. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 70: They told us that some gas shells had just fallen in the road ahead so we put our masks on and gave Lizzie the gun.
at gun, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 13 Sept. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 19: If you men had done this ten weeks later yewed have caught H-E-double L!
at catch hell (v.) under hell, n.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 8 July in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 112: I [...] am now waiting for Hub to ransack the medicine chest to see what new kind of medicine he can discover. I imagine I will be OK in a day or so if I take his junk & go to bed.
at junk, n.1
[US] G. Bowerman diary 5 May in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 80: We saw some real honest to goodness American girls and they looked like a million dollars.
at look (like) a million dollars (v.) under million, n.
[US] G. Bowerman diary 24 June in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 106: I was still awake when ‘Pop’ Campbell came down.
at pop, n.3
[US] G. Bowerman diary 5 Mar. in Carnes Compensations of War (1983) 69: By way of diversion we started up the ‘vic’ and I began some interpretive dancing to amuse the boys.
at Vic, n.
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