Vulgar words in Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them (Page 1)

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They square off and bring that hand to their heads and look that officer square in the eyes as if to say: 'Now, damn you, salute me!'

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An axle breaks, the returning line waits an hour for the other to cross, a sixty-foot pine log for the new railway bridge wedges fast in turning a corner and stops everything--you must imagine them at it all day, sweating and swearing in all the dialects of the dual monarchy--all night, with fagged horses and drivers dazed with sleep, in the blaze of a search-light reaching out over the river.

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