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...cancer, Harold painstakingly constructs a reply....
...There they were taught to read and dosed with culture by a particularly motley crew of teachers, all of whom had lost eyes, hands and legs in the first world war....
...They are a motley bunch....
...It is the story of a motley gang of mercenaries hired to escort a shifty scientist on a top secret mission in eastern Europe....
...A motley crew, to be sure, but men with vast experience of war, peace and life....
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