Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Rev. Elliot Warne left his snug little parish in England to go to France as an earnest, sensitive, high-minded chaplain, he could not have picked a worse time. He joined his unit, an artillery brigade in Cough's Fifth Army, in the spring of 1918, four hours before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This...