Word: skylarkin
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They had turned out at 5:40 in the morning, often worked until past 9 o'clock at night, had seldom had time or inclination at day's end for anything but crawling into bed in the quiet squad rooms (All right, there'll be no skylarkin' in barracks.). First they had learned to march, how to shoot out their feet and straighten their knees, not plod along like civilians. And they had learned that a soldier marches with his head up (Hey, you, eyes off the deck.), is alert in obeying commands (Get going...
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