Word: furloughing
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...Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...
...foreign missionary on furlough...
...comedy roles with Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Al Jolson, Ozzie & Harriet Nelson. By 1940 he was doing 22 shows a week, a mark he broke only during the war. As a master sergeant in the Armed Services Radio, he handled 120 shows at once and found time, during a furlough, to marry Cathy Lewis (a mutual friend had thought it a good gag to introduce them because they had the same last names...
Cross Purposes. In Richmond, Sergeant Luther Seldon Jr. arrived home on a 30-day furlough from Munich to surprise his wife, found that she was en route to Germany to surprise...
...Reds began shooting up Sandbag Castle, Joe canceled his own furlough, volunteered to stay and help build bunkers. He was standing in a shallow trench, filling bags with sand, when five mortar shells came in. Joe was hit from head to foot by fragments, thrown on his back. He called to his Katusa Pal Choi ("Jacky") Chang Moon: "Where are my legs? Where are my hands?" They were dangling. He was rushed to the R.O.K. hospital in Pusan, where surgeons amputated all four limbs, and he became the fourth quadruple amputee of the Korean...