Word: scruffiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever came across, compared with whom the Germans were gentlemen." The delegation was "impressed with the universal opinion of these British troops and of many others whom we consulted that, had they not been ordered into action against ELAS, there would have been wholesale massacre...
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