Word: largish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main entry road runs past several largish buildings. These had been cleared; and now we began to meet the liberated. Several hundred Russians, French, Yugoslavs, Italians and Poles were here, frantically, hysterically happy. They began to kiss us, and there is nothing you can do when a lot of hysterical, unshaven, lice-bitten, half-drunk, typhus-infected men want to kiss you. Nothing at all. You cannot hit them, and besides, they all kiss you at the same time. It is no good trying to explain that you are only a correspondent. A half-dozen of them were especially happy...
...home is the largish, comfortable, book-filled Master's House at University College, Oxford, but he spends much time in his cell-like London Government office, living in a basement Reform Club where, since the blitz bombed him out, he sleeps comfortably in a passage...