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QUADE: two combat search-and-rescue helicopters, known as Jollies, responded.
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QUADE: two combat search-and-rescue helicopters, known as Jollies, responded.
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Royal Marines were also known as Jollies, which according to Eric Partridge was once the nick name of the London Trained Bands, [p. 12] [9] Work on the Suez Canal, the brainchild of the French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, began in 1859, and the waterway was opened to navigation in 1869.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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Of course there is a bias towards Wind and Andrew davies and others have been on Wind "Jollies".
Rats 2007
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QUADE: Two combat search and rescue helicopters, known as "Jollies," responded.
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There's also a pair of Jem Cohen revivals "Instrument," on the DIY punk band Fugazi, and "This Is a History of New York", as well as Sadie Benning's Pixelvision-shot reverie "Jollies" and the Sonic Youth-Chris Habib-Rita Ackerman collaborative short "Puppet Show."
Making Beautiful Music With Film Steve Dollar 2011
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I suppose the next thing will be "Doctors Jollies" from the drugs companies regarded as bribery - I mean just how low can we sink
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Our helicopters called HH-60s, they're Jollies, that's their nickname, and they're used for search and rescue missions.
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Operating farther inland than TF 77 helos could go, the Jollies provided magnificent service to air force and navy aircrews alike.
On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988
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Grim was still being grim, Gruff was torn between loyalty and love, Mrs Sick had been sick and so, though they made less parade of it, had nearly everyone else; one of the more obscure Jollies had been assaulted by one of the sailors in a Nasty Way and the rest of the women were treating her as Untouchable and wishing like anything that it had happened to themselves.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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