Word: awol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little by little the boy began to talk. His name was Louis Turini. No, his name was really Albert Santos. But they had misunderstood in the Army and put him down as Albert Thomas. Now he was AWOL-two weeks AWOL. He complained about his divorced parents, his boyhood in Boston's slums. He babbled in bewildered tones about a girl. "My girl ran off with a musician. He smokes marijuana. I know she's ruined...
Forbidden Food. Meanwhile, the Navy doctors treated the AWOL private, got his temperature down to normal by midweek. There was no way for the doctors to tell how long Stanley had been ill with virus pneumonia-whether he had had it before his abduction from the fort, or whether it had developed during the long drive to Chicago...
...love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...