Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding out in his automobile . . . Two caravans of 40 camels each were reported carrying Bedouin dead and wounded to the rear . . . Deir-ez-Zor, city of 20,000, was reported captured by the natives . . . Wealthy merchants were reported fleeing to the coast at Beirut which the French are reinforcing with...
...same day news was flashed from Washington that upon his return Admiral Coontz will surrender command of the Fleet to Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, and will be assigned as Commandant of the Fifth District Headquarters at Hampton Roads. He will then revert automatically to the rank of Rear Admiral...
...Sargent ruled that all Rear Admirals rank with Major Generals. When any Rear Admiral and any Major General get together, precedence is determined by seniority alone...
...promotion manager. There he ordered a right face, and they went on into the office of John B. and Tracy Drake. Immensely pleased with himself as a drill master, he marched them back through all the offices to the room from which they had started. "To the rear, MARCH...
...Texas" was even more pleased, so he had them repeat the maneuver. "To the rear, MARCH!" As they were getting back to their starting point for the second time, the last clerk in the line slammed the office door in his face. "Texas" blasphemed, tried the door, finally fired through it. But the clerks had scattered. Then he broke out through another door and made his way through the corridor to the clerk's office again. One of them was sitting inoffensively at a desk. "Texas" glared at him, then shot him dead...