Word: unupblown
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...Much of the novel's lunatic telegraphese was pure reportage. After the invasion, for example, newspaper offices heard a rumor that the Italians had bombed a native hospital, killing a beautiful American nurse. Editors demanded the story of "nurse upblown." After a vain search, Waugh cabled back: "Nurse unupblown...
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