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- 23 NATELY'S OLD MAN The only one back in the squadron who did see any of Milo's red bananas was Aarfy, who picked up two from an influential fraternity brother of his in the Quartermaster Corps when the bananas ripened and began streaming into Italy through normal black-market channels and who was in the officer's apartment with Yossarian the evening Nately finally found his whore again after so many fruitless weeks of mournful searching and lured her back to the apartment with two…†
Chpt 23
- Wintergreen is probably the most influential man in the whole theater of operations.†
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Definition:
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(influential) having influence (the ability to affect people or events) -- especially due to respect or admiration