Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must stop and get busy about making out a Christmas list which I haven't even thought of yet. Isn't this always the most hectic time of the entire year...
...Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there isn't a bathtub, where bedbugs have bitten me ... where everything smells awful...
...Just counting isn't enough," he says, to make a man keep it up when he's tired, the only time time exercise is really effective. And so he tries to "lead the men instead of forcing them," and usually injects enough humor into his commands to take men's minds off screaming tendons...
...looking for just the right card and could find nothing. Finally, in desperation he had been forced to cross out "To My Soldier Boy" on a card and put in his true one's name. "Goe," he concluded, "There's not a single good one on the Square that isn't to some soldier or other...
There was the old Petty girl fluttering on another wall, above the liquor-stained armchair; the one he had helped Bob carry over from Matthews when the moved out of the Yard. "Two years isn't much time," Vag thought. He felt the cigarette cling to his dry lips as he shuffled over to the fireplace. The bricks were cold and black. Vag shivered as he remembered all the week-hour bull sessions its fires had warned, and the way they used to talk about a far-away war with a bottle of scotch on the floor between them...