What is "deans"

Usage examples of "deans".

It was just one of a series of military formalities that Prisoner-of-War Deans and Captor Ostmann played out whenever they met.

For his part, Ostmann knew that the 29-year-old Deans, elected by the prisoners as their spokesman, was an obstinate, determined bargainer who could, and often did, make Ostmann’s life miserable.

According to Deans, the procedure was basic: “You simply give the blighters hell all the time.

From these precious sources, Deans knew that Eisenhower’s armies were over the Rhine and fighting in the Ruhr.

Then, with one of his courteous gestures, he offered Deans a special privilege.

But as he returned to barracks to pass the word of the march around camp, he made himself a solemn vow: using every ruse he could think of, from slow-ups to sit-downs to minor mutinies, Dixie Deans somehow intended to reach the Allied lines with all twelve thousand men of Stalag 357.

There were nearly two thousand to a column, and although Deans tried resolutely to cover the entire area, it was an exhausting job.

The German Commandant, Colonel Ostmann, appeared almost embarrassed by the meandering march and the shortage of food, but he told Deans, “There is just nothing I can do.

The arrival of the parcels was a plain miracle and we promptly invested Deans with the qualities of a saint.

Some bodies were riddled almost beyond recognition—“just bits and pieces that had to be shoveled into the graves,” Deans was later to recall.

Feet pitty-patted toward me, I eyed the house, wondered if Id have lime to get Deans attention before somebody did something unpleasant and maybe left the old boy a mess to clean up.

Hell, Ill borrow Deans broom and help the ratmen clean streets in my spare time.

Shed carried a bundle wrapped in cloth like that wrapped around Deans hand.

She opened the book and presently found, "Stringe, Laurence Thomas Benjamin, Vicar of Upper Staines, Deans Folly, Upper Reach Village, near Staines.

She thought a moment, then wrote: "Am imprisoned at Deans Folly, Upper Reach Village, near Staines.