Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, said Dr. Lahey to a war-decimated meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, more doctors will be recruited. Reason: poor distribution of doctors in the armed forces. At the front, there are too few doctors; in the rear (which includes Army & Navy hospitals in the U.S.), too many...
...White House physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, seemed content. Recently he had been able to talk his patient into a little extra exercise-occasional car rides, more frequent dips in the White House pool. The Roosevelt weight was just what the doctor likes...
...Germans still held Hill 165, from which they poured a deadly mortar fire on the hard-fighting New Zealand troops in the town. Although Castle Hill, just behind it, is in Allied hands, tricky terrain enabled the Germans to infiltrate through a ravine to the rear whenever New Zealanders attempted to attack Hill 165. The Germans in turn were frustrated in several attempts to regain Castle Hill...
...there were signs of demoralization among the retreat-adept Germans. North of Nikolayev, the Sixth German Army was ringed and destroyed. South of Vinnitsa three encircled German divisions were being whittled down. Thousands of dejected prisoners wearily marched to Russia's rear. The fortified German line on the Russian Bug (which empties into the Black Sea)* was pierced in two days, the Dniester line in a night...
Congressman Robert Hale (Maine, R.) chatted with Lord Halifax at a British Embassy tea, felt himself pinched in the rear, turned gravely, found a woman who babbled that she had mistaken him for Justice Felix Frankfurter...