billet
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Hundreds of them marched — marched — down from Northern California to this new billet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
The spot premium for low-carbon billet, a fabricated product often used in construction, has slid to zero from $30 a tonne in January, he said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2022
“When he was here, we would go for drives and he would sing, he would dance, he would laugh,” said his billet mom, Kim Pagé.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
One of the first things he did was inform his coaches and billet families from his time in Everett.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
About twenty yards from our dug-out there is a small house that was used as an officers’ billet.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Mr. Carter’s decision to open combat billets to women upended policy as old as the U.S. military itself: Women could only support, not fight in, America’s wars.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
Still, there have been well-documented success stories, with several women completing the notoriously grueling training for elite special operations billets.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
A GI billets in a relative’s castle, haunted by a cowardly 300-year-old ghost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
General and flag officers generally have been removed from their billets only for misconduct, a failure on the battlefield, or screw-ups inside the bureaucracy.
From Time ● Sep. 11, 2016
We are accustomed to a good deal in the billets, but this makes us feel faint.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The occupiers billeted at a local restaurant, Sashy, where Russian boots, military garb and ration boxes are still scattered about.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2022
They have skated in 11 cities, four time zones and two countries, flown in every direction on the compass and billeted in almost a dozen hotels across the continent.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
It was here that Louis XIV's soldiers were billeted during the persecution of the Protestant Huguenots - ancestors of the modern population - in the 17th Century.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2021
More than 20,000 National Guard troops are billeted in the nation’s capital to keep peace during the inauguration.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
Three mothers with seven children, all from the Hackney area of London, had been billeted on the Tallis family.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff — how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021
Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017
Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers in the area during World War One.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2014
On Jan. 26, 2008, Corporal Santiago, Corpsman Carpeso and Hollywood were together in a billeting container when the corpsman was shot in the eye.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013
He assigned my brother at once to the Sixteenth Infantry, and ordered me to go with the advance billeting detail to the Gondecourt area, where our troops were to train.
From Average Americans by Roosevelt, Theodore
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