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work party

He virtually shoved the man toward one of the numerous work parties.

There was no organization, except as people organized the members of their own families into work parties.

A few of the guys in the work party stopped and waved to him as he flashed past.

There too, south and east of the highway, were the work parties he'd come to warn.

"No change, sir, although a few more work parties are active."

Then the work party sealed it all up and took their leave.

He got to the gate two or three minutes before the work party returned.

Then it occurred to him that perhaps these weren't Southerners, but a work party from the north.

They had no room for a larger work party.

In November he and another prisoner escaped from a work party.