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Through this smouldering shambles the sullen Germans-orderly to the last-filed in columns to lay down their arms at collection points. Men with grey, stubbly beards crept out of cellars, subways and dugouts under white flags to surrender trudge silently out of the city under guard. Said Moscow: 507,000 Germans were killed or captured in the Battle of Berlin...
Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...
Clanking and wheezing, a spavined suburban train crept out of Rio de Janeiro. Late as usual, packed to the gills with the sweating homeward-bound, it broke down outside the city. For a while the passengers endured with true commuter calm. Then, like an oilfield fire, wild revolt swept through the train. The long-suffering customers tore out the seats by the roots, dragged down light fixtures and luggage racks, turned the train into a shambles...
...worm-turned-dragon finally went too far: he set the train on fire. As the flames crept forward, the driver unhitched the engine, sped up the line for police...
...dozens of ships that crept through the fog into Manhattan's harbor last week was a French merchantman inbound from the Mediterranean. Stowed within her salt-stained hull were 6,000 cases of Hennessy brandy, 2,500 cases of Martell brandy, and four cases of Caron perfume. This was not a large shipment by prewar standards, but it was the first consignment of French luxury goods to arrive in the U.S. since...