Word: suitableand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the train, the corporal and his three buddies "commandeered" a first-class compartment, and added a pregnant mother and her children ("someone suitableand deserving") to the group. One of the soldiers questioned the pregnant woman, whose husband worked in an anti-tank gun factory. "[Your husband] didn't come out on strike, did he?" asked the soldier. "Yes, he did-twice." "Why?" asked the soldier. "They wasn't paying enough, and it was terrible long hours." "We could have done with those guns," snapped the soldier. . . . Suddenly he blushed and became apologetic: "Sorry, miss...
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