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Word: leglong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into the line of march, practically by the power of his curses. Last week Company D prayed that none of its tanks, on this, of all days, should lay an egg before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Company D and The Old Man | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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