Word: awol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Items: Private Demara (Tony Curtis) goes AWOL from the Army, fakes academic credentials, joins the Marines as an officer. When the FBI starts to check up, he jumps the fence, fakes more credentials, enters a Trappist monastery. When the Trappists find him too secular, to contemplate, they gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins...
Morgan is an adventurer and drifter who joined the U.S. Army when he was 18, served with the occupation forces in Japan, then escaped from a stockade (where he was serving three months for going AWOL) by disarming a guard. Recaptured, he was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary...
...blitz: fire-fighting brigades, their tough prewar ranks swollen by amateurs, were poorly coordinated, and water reserves were badly located. Worse, 35 weeks of bombardment had hardened London into taking business and pleasure as usual; on the night of the great raid, perhaps half the fire watchers were AWOL...