You are right about the word, Faldage. I LOVED that movie when I saw it--I was about the same age as the girls in it--, so much so that not too long after we got a VCR I got the video store to special-order it for me. And I still like it. They are pretending to be war nurses, not wanting to be discovered for fear of being "radished". Utter innocence, wonderfully portrayed.