Word: billets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sprag: a "billet of wood or a rod used . . . for checking a vehicle from running backward...
Jack Falsey also has a humorous tale which any of his roommates will be glad to tell at any time. Jack will either have to stop writing billet-doux early in the morning while he's still sleepy or else set up a handy file for his pseudonyms. After setting the fashion pace by coming out at the second elbow within a week, Tex Lifshutz has modestly decided to accept L. Fuller's offer of a temporary loan of one complete black shirt...
...they jumped into a British truck to be taken away for interrogation, he cried: 'Voleurs! Assassins!' He told his story determinedly. Three days ago in Marcourt-just across the river-German soldiers rounded up all the young girls and drove them like cows from soldier billet to soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters in the cellar and covered them over with blankets. When the Germans tore him out of the cellar, he called out to his daughters, 'Save yourselves...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...days later another sister landed, bombed out too. They all had kids so you can imagine what it was like in a three-room bungalow. Well, anyway, in a couple of days Kit was right enough again to have the usual wrangle with the usual nasty billeting officer and finally got a billet with, somebody. But next day that person's mother and family, also bombed out, arrived, so the billet was out. I took my week's holiday and I moved them all down to some relations at Quagmarsh. There they seemed to be all right...