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...Days. Like most of London's weather, last week's fog was not as bad as fogs "used to be." Cabbies remembered when "yer couldn't see yer blinkin' 'and in front of yer fice...
...mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
...Bruce Bairnsfather's "Old Bill," best-known cartoon soldier of World War I ("Well, if yer knows of a better 'ole, go to it"), is the spiritual uncle of Mauldin's Willie...
Thought from Orthodoxy. A paddler said: "D'yer think hell will be as hot as this?" The sergeant snarled: "You'll be afindin' out mighty quick if you don't get a move on." We paddled a little faster and crouched a little lower-and I wished I'd left my sheepskin coat behind, for the heat from the flamethrowers and the burning banks and the patches of burning water were making me uncomfortable...
...Scottie broke into our conversation at this point with "Come on, yer Nazi bastard-save yer talk fer later...