Word: blimeys
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...troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by winding paths over the hills and melted away into the countryside. Into the streets, behind them, marched British troops and Greek Government Militia, pelted by flowers from shattered windows. Said a perplexed Tommy: "Blimey, I'll never get the hang of these people. First flowers, then bombs, then flowers again...
...Blimey, wotta army!" exclaimed a wizened British corporal, just back from the Middle East, as he looked at bemedaled U.S. soldiers in London's streets, "Every bloomin...
...prove the heroic temper of our island in these tremendous days." Campaigner Hartington bounded from hall to marketplace in the division's 128 towns and villages. He pumped the hands of village mothers, tweaked the noses of their babes in prams, left a wake of amazed comment: "Blimey! Imagine shaking hands with a Lord." He spoke briefly and snappily, closed by hoisting his hands overhead and shouting, "Don't let the old side down." His attractive mother, the Duchess, followed him to explain that, really, her boy was deeply interested in serious things like pensions for veterans...
...dying in the winter waves. Camouflaged trucks rumble endlessly through country lanes. Farmers' fields feel the strange bite of tank treads. By night the R.A.F.'s soft drumming fills the sky. By day people stop still in the streets to watch the silvery bomber formations high overhead: "Blimey, look how tight those Americans keep together...
Meanwhile in Teheran there was general relief and relaxing of the rigid security guard. Said one tired Tommy: "Blimey, I'm glad it's over. Now we can get into town again...