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Catch-22
- With sick call suspended and the door to the medical tent nailed shut, Doc Daneeka spent the intervals between rain perched on a high stool, wordlessly absorbing the bleak outbreak of fear with a sorrowing neutrality, roosting like a melancholy buzzard below the ominous, hand-lettered sign tacked up on the closed door of the medical tent by Captain Black as a joke and left hanging there by Doc Daneeka because it was no joke.†
Chpt 10
- !' he wrote: Chaplain (hanging around officers' club every night) The two chaplain entries, therefore, neutralized each other.†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(neutral as in: played at a neutral site) not favoring any side in a contest, war, disagreement, or other dispute