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seventy-two-hour

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  • The introduction shows a bulldozer driver serenely creating a dirt ridge at the front line—one of the most dangerous jobs in the war, with a seventy-two-hour life expectancy—while bursts from machine guns and blasting rockets and artillery shells punctuate the soundtrack.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Neagle was eventually arrested for soliciting a prostitute and had enough wild stories whispered about him to entertain a seventy-two-hour bachelor party.14 Some kind of change in direction was clearly needed.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • The entire seventy-two-hour experience had robbed my sister of every ounce of her spiritual strength.

    Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010

  • Neagle was eventually arrested for soliciting a prostitute and had enough wild stories whispered about him to entertain a seventy-two-hour bachelor party.14 Some kind of change in direction was clearly needed.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Neagle was eventually arrested for soliciting a prostitute and had enough wild stories whispered about him to entertain a seventy-two-hour bachelor party.14 Some kind of change in direction was clearly needed.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • The entire seventy-two-hour experience had robbed my sister of every ounce of her spiritual strength.

    Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010

  • Neagle was eventually arrested for soliciting a prostitute and had enough wild stories whispered about him to entertain a seventy-two-hour bachelor party.14 Some kind of change in direction was clearly needed.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • It felt like the crazed exercise at Parris Island, back when Parris Island meant something, where you were on a seventy-two-hour field exercise and nights bled into days, which bled into nights, until you were so aching you thought it would never end and your movements had gotten stupid with fatigue.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • It felt like the crazed exercise at Parris Island, back when Parris Island meant something, where you were on a seventy-two-hour field exercise and nights bled into days, which bled into nights, until you were so aching you thought it would never end and your movements had gotten stupid with fatigue.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • It felt like the crazed exercise at Parris Island, back when Parris Island meant something, where you were on a seventy-two-hour field exercise and nights bled into days, which bled into nights, until you were so aching you thought it would never end and your movements had gotten stupid with fatigue.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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