demob

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The officer said that it could be arranged but since my demob was imminent I would probably get home quicker if I let things take their course.

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  • Or is that simply a consequence of being stuck on the toilet-less 2159 train from Newington to London Victoria last night for so long that the eventual relief - think Renton in Trainspotting, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near - prompted a demob happiness and the giddy high-fiving of strangers? —  Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • How about being solicited (at suppertime) by a person, not a computer? demob our workforce. —  ZYZZYVASPEAKS
  • However, he has insisted he is not "demob happy", and was still focused on tackling bloodthirsty dissidents who killed two soldiers and a police officer last month.
  • Its features demob suit below a disco ball, his PA talking down a brick-sized phone, him trying to tune into Dallas on his outdated computer and get his withered hand around a Rubik's Cube, McCain is old and useless. voiceover: —  Anorak News
  • Sir Ray began his newspaper group with the £300 demob money given to soldiers at the end of the Second World War and he started with a weekly paper in Tooting, south London, with a circulation of 700. —  Press Gazette Latest News
 

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