He was in a large sweat, because we were two hours late due to headwinds over the Atlantic, and Boiling Field, Washington DC, was fogged in.
8 seconds sound clip from the Dead Reckoning (1947) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:03:53.325 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Neither one of us had any idea why the Army had suddenly ripped us out of a Paris hospital.
- We'd been under fancy treatment, me for my shoulder, and Johnny for his punctured lung.
- But he hoped maybe they'd hold the Limited more than ten minutes.
- All the way to the Penn Station, I tried to feel out the good desk colonel, but he'd only grin.
- They'd actually held the Limited for us.
- Somebody sure enough wanted us in Washington, but now.
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