Word: coupla
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...them are beautiful played. The overworked and woman-ridden First Sergeant wants, desperately to get away from his morning reports and into combat. A baboon-like, whistle-blowing platoon sergeant wants to know the purpose of overnight passes, because "any fool knows it takes more than a coupla hours to make any decent broad." The company commander suffers terribly because his wife, who plays bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie and the latrine lawyer are all old stuff to anecdote...
Bill Mauldin's sardonic, unshaven Willie once summed up his attitude to the reckless flood of U.S. decorations in World War II. Said Willie: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart...
...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...
...seat. Terrible-tempered Sir Thomas stopped the orchestra, turned on French. "You go home," he barked. French went; he had his picture. He sassed Rumania's Queen Marie when she asked him: "Don't you ever shave?" Retorted French: "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour. When d'ja think I'd have time to shave?" Sent to photograph a prize canary, French whirled the bird around his head until it was groggy enough to hold still for a picture...
Maybe they never heard of "free press"- maybe they think "suppress" is the American way. Will thank Hancock and Browder's ancestors for our Bill of Rights, say I. No I'm not a descendant of a coupla Mayflower Pilgrims but my people were waiting for 'em at Plymouth Rock, when they landed...