Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all Harvard Naval Training Units competing for top honors, Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District, will conduct the full Brigade Review this Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...Crossed the Yellow River, deep in China's rear defense lines, in the face of excellent fortifications...
When the blow fell, the Chinese were as rusty as their scanty ammunition. In the years of stalemate no adequate defenses had been built, no preparations made to launch a guerrilla campaign in the enemy's rear, once he began his big push. Some Chinese troops-notably those of plucky little General T'ang En-po-were better than others; but none fared well...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon's Twelfth Air Force was at work over the lines. It also ranged north into the Germans' rear areas, smashing bridges, shooting up railroad and truck trains. It was busy every hour of the day at what Joe Cannon called its "strangling operation." General Cannon had given his airman's word that all heavy communications from the north had been cut days before the battle began, and that they would stay cut. If his judgment was correct, the men on the ground could plow forward with hope at their grim job: making the Germans...
...Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends of ostriches...