Word: tled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tougher. The Germans bat tled the First Army from buildings, tow ers, tunnels, vaults. They fought viciously until their plight was hopeless, then sur rendered mildly. They were found hiding in brick kilns and under beds. One group, chased out of an electric plant, ran to an apartment house next door and resumed the battle there. Four Germans were captured in a pillbox on the sixth floor of a paper mill...
Funniest: A credit man who had bat tled C.A.C., came to it dolefully one day, hat in hand. His own affairs were a mess...
...cancel the contract, and to open bidding to all comers. Thus the ICC joined hands with the SEC and the Fed eral Power Commission, both of which four years ago ordered competitive bidding on the sale of utility bonds. But the Commission's action meant more: it set tled for a time Wall Street's old fight over private v. public bond sales...
...Timisoara, just 20 miles from the Yugoslav frontier, a mechanized division took up quarters. Mechanized units set tled down for the winter at Turnu-Māgurele near the Bulgarian border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...