Word: awols
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...rights to his next three books, despite the fact that Jones is only halfway through the first. Dell also signed Irwin Shaw by offering him 100% of the reprint royalties. Pocket Books created Trident Press for the sole purpose of encouraging Harold (The Carpetbaggers) Robbins to go AWOL from Knopf...
...mythification, Jim Copp and Ed Brown, are off on another of their nonsensical crusades ("Oh, never have we ever been on such a trip as this/ We're headed for Flumdiddle, but/ We don't know where it is"), this time accompanied by titled tin pans, AWOL toy soldiers, and that masterly comic creation The Hen With...
...straw, but vastly more resilient, Fonda makes a personable Broadway debut as the third of the acting Fondas (Father Henry, Sister Jane). Otherwise, all of the familiar adenoidal monsters that only a first sergeant could love show up for roll call in Stanley Poole, and the laughs are mostly AWOL...
...producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach local beer taps, but he is sure that Salinger never went AWOL, as Holden did, and practiced only accepted sorts of nonconformism...
...SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), which eventually led to the development of sonar (sound navigation ranging...