Word: furloughing
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...Rizzitello had fought in Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. He wore a Purple Heart, a Presidential unit citation (the 3rd Division's), battle stars for six campaigns. On his furlough to the U.S. this spring he had taken a wife; he had made his farewell the day he went to Dix to get on with...
...first to walk in Ward 108 was Private First Class Harry Sanders, 24, who was hurt at Saint-LÔ last summer when a bomb exploded 5 ft. behind him. Almost completely paralyzed from the waist down, blue-eyed Private Sanders went home to Marysville, Pa. on furlough last month, hopped proudly around the house on his braces, laid plans to return to civilian life as a radio mechanic...
...politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were a Polish refugee pastrycook with a wife, a child, and a hereditary stomach ailment ("My motter die of vormce...
...darn bad if the French are disappointed. Our men have only been fighting a little more than three years, have not seen the last of Europe's mess, and only have Japan to defeat after a 30-day furlough (perhaps) in the States...
...basic situation shows two handicapped people trying to help each other find the way back to mental security. One is a psychoneurotic soldier on his own for two weeks--the other an inmate of a women's prison, freed for a Christmas "furlough." The field for honest psychological exploration in large and inviting, but the movie takes instead the high road to popular appeal...