Word: awoler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With money supplied by relatives they bought liquor, which they smuggled into their quarters. Frequently they went AWOL and roamed the nearby towns, making ardent and often successful love to local girls. Two towns had barred them. Citizens of another town had one waylaid and thrashed a group of them...
...Informers tattled on others. Some deserters were caught in the Army's net. But the catch was not big. Last week the Defense Department announced that of the 6,300-odd soldiers reported AWOL two weeks before, 4,600 were still at large...
Glmpatience. At Fort George G. Meade, a soldier, newly arrived at the Separation Center for his discharge from the Army, went AWOL...
...striving to describe the forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...
Thirty Polish Jews went AWOL in Britain two weeks ago to escape the "virulent antiSemitism" of the Polish Army. Specifically, they said that Polish officers called Hitler the saviour of Europe for exterminating the Jews. Seeking transfer to British units as 200 others had successfully done last month, they were arrested, charged with desertion...