Word: wardrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with steam and his inflated face slick with sweat, owed $8 to a sharp-eyed little captain. He asked: 'Do you want it now, or will you take it off the corpse?' One by one the men drifted off to the narrow, airless bunks assigned them. The wardroom was empty...
...clock the colored mess attendant had turned on the wardroom lights and got the table ready for breakfast. The troops somnambulated in. A few had already made themselves ready, had melted pellets of green dye and smeared their faces. One of these had applied an imaginative swirl of green across his face, leaving an eerie eye and half a mouth. 'I want them to die laughing,' he explained...
...After breakfast men drifted together in the corner of the wardroom. One of them softly began to sing. Shyly others cleared their throats and chimed in. As the singing finally died down, one officer smiled a funny smile and broke into Just Before the Battle, Mother...
General Sir Harold Alexander entered the wardroom at headquarters for his first press conference since the beginning of the Italian campaign. Three dozen correspondents jumped to their feet. The commander of Allied ground forces in Italy promptly waved them down, seated himself on a desk corner...
...that the next parade will be at 6 a.m. the following morning, at a place 100 miles away. How he gets there is his own business. He must be his own cook. Muttered the horrified captain of a Commando-carrying gunboat: "There are 50 soldiers frying bacon in my wardroom...