Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...yesterday morning I get up and there starting me in the face are two of 'em all different. Now I'm an average guy, just a genial backer, and I will read, a 'Poon, but not two, never...
Then some guy with a red and white tie and a strang dyspeptic look comes up and says no, that ain't two 'poons, one of 'em's a parody. Well, I'm a game joker so I says OK that's a paradoy, but to me, bud, it's just another 'Poon, to hold the stuff that was too good for the regular issue...
Calisthenics period, 1941 model: "Counta one, stretch yer arms out... counta till leave 'em snap back...
Last week at a base far from the crowds (whose members sometimes shout "Hit 'em again" when a batter is struck by a pitched ball) the "Yankees" took the championship game...