Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery served notice to the world that the U.S. would henceforth be a maritime nation. > The U.S. Treasury announced a tentative plan for a $10 billion United Nations World Bank...
...hoarse, warning bellow tore through the fog of postwar shipping plans last week, set Britons tooting nervously. Back in Washington from a three-week visit to London, U.S. Maritime Commission's Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery announced that he had told the British the U.S. "had become a maritime nation and intended to remain one; that we would do it by cooperation if they wanted to but, if they 'didn't want to, we were going to do it anyway. . . . But ... it is much better to do it in cooperation . . . than to start a wrangle...
...Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
Another Admiral. Eastward above the sun-scorched plain of India flew the big transport Marco Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers...
Skillful German rearguards fitted the rains into the pattern of delaying action. Mines under the firm roads forced Allied columns to flounder in the gumbo beside the highways. Demolition charges toppled bridges into angry streams. Shielded by low clouds from strafing planes, the rear guards huddled in orchards and behind stone walls, sniped viciously with rifle, machine gun and mortar...