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...erect, well-dressed girls drawn up for parade. In the clammy English dawn, she saw WACs in maroon bathrobes (with boy friends' unit insignia sewn on their sleeves) dashing from tin barracks and scuttling across the mud-heading for the "ablution hut" to start the day with a shivery washup...
...Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps...
...they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
Special knives and tommy-guns and knuckle-dusters ; they wear rope-soled shoes . . . they carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with," Alastair Trumpington breathlessly tells his pregnant wife. "D'you mind very much if I accept?" "No, darling, I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that...
...Allies together already have the essential implements for victory-troops, tanks, aircraft and arms. There is no time to wait until the last button is sewn on the uniform of the last soldier. Sometimes you have to fight, not under the conditions that are desired, but under the conditions that are unavoidable. In such a case you quickly have to change your plans and adapt yourselves to new circumstances...