1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 48: Tyne, you’re a smart apple. Keep your head.at smart apple (n.) under apple, n.1
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 121: Ward gives me a pain in the tail. All sergeants give me a pain in the tail.at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 55: ‘Can I smoke, corporal?’ Rivera asked. ‘Burn,’ Tyne said. ‘Butt me, Friedman,’ said Rivera.at butt, v.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 59: Sergeant Porter was [...] ready for the cleaners. He was a good man, but had reached the end of his tether. All that remained was for the tether to break.at ready for the cleaners under cleaners, n.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 109: I treat you like a brother and you stick a knife in my back. He’s a crumb, ain’t he, Judson?at crum, n.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 15: Take them a hundred yards up from the barge and hit the dirt. [Ibid.] 119: He dug dirt again as a row of bullets passed over him.at hit the dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 82: They’d be duck soup for the tanks. Even one tank [...] could come up over one of the hills and be on them before they’d have time to scatter.at duck soup, n.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 90: Otherwise you’re a gone goose, a dead soldier.at gone goose (n.) under gone, adj.1
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 48: Keep your head on.at keep your hair on! (excl.) under keep one’s hair on, v.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 42: ‘It’s a Purple Heart, sarge,’ Rivera said. ‘Shove it,’ Sergeant Hoskins said.at shove it!, excl.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 102: They had their morale back. Not that they had ever really lost it. They had simply been a little uncertain of themselves.at lose it, v.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 92: These jobs don’t weight more than a couple of tons. A grenade under her belly ought to lift her right off the road.at job, n.2
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 22: ‘All I know is, in 1958 we’re going to fight the Battle of Tibet. I got the facts.’ ‘Kill that,’ Porter said.at kill it (v.) under kill, v.
1944 H. Brown A Walk in Sun 54: Tyne and Private Phelps picked up Private Smith. [...] ‘He’s out,’ Phelps said.at out, adv.1
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 28: If we hang around here any longer we’ll screw up the whole works.at screw up, v.
1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun 47: ‘I don’t think they’re wide awake yet, but they’re going to be. It’s a stinking situation. Right?’ ‘Right!’ chorused the platoon.at stinking, adj.1