Word: hodgey
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Hodge told his men: "We are midwives at the rebirth of a nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when...
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