Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dances, monologues, songs, films, and a talk by Reverend Stephen H. Fritchman, editor of the Christian Register, will feature the evening. The films include "Our Russian Front," and "In the Rear of the Enemy." Tickets can be procured at the offices of the Cambridge Russian War Relief Society, at 36 Dunster Street...
Before a large gathering of prospective candidates Sunday night, the Harvard Yacht Club elected officers for its coming 1944 season. George O'Day '45 will be the new Commodore, Douglas Danner '46 the Vice-Commodore, Donald Knowlton '46 the Rear Commodore, and Joseph A. Erickson, Jr. '46 the Secretary-Treasurer. Also assigned to posts were Ingerson Cunningham '46 as Cruising Master, and Frederic Hilton '46 as Fleet Captain. Plans for the coming season include eight intercollegiate regattas, with a cruise and dance weekend winding up their activities in June...
Once Cassino fell, the Gustav Line would have to fold. With sounder timing, that should have happened in the first week of the Nettuno landing. But somehow, almost encircled, Cassino held. Result: when the beachhead soldiers pushed forward they were driving against no rear area disorganized and road-clogged with retreat. They were banging their heads against a well-organized, coolly conducted, unfettered line of resistance...
...Said Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of the expeditionary force: enemy resistance was much less than had been expected. For the Japs it was the darkest week of the war. "We must all keep ourselves cool," said Diet Member Ichiro Hirose...
...midnight it was bitterly cold. Men arriving in the drainage ditch unreeled their wire, installed telephones. Other outfits marched up. In the dim moonlight officers assembled their little rear units, started them digging in the soft black earth. The first group already had its orders; long strings of shadowy figures were moving toward Highway...