Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission's craggy, solid Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, who yearns to see the U.S. become a great maritime power after the war-and gets seasick every time he thinks of the Liberty ship's plodding, 12-knot speed...
...strongpoint of the German rear guard was Randazzo, an ancient town built on the lava-strewn northern slopes of Mt. Etna in the most rugged countryside the Allied troops had yet encountered...
...these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...
...Said a U.S. officer: '"The moment we take an objective we have to organize our perimeters quickly, for the Japs . . . strike back immediately in localized counterattacks." Public-address systems were brought up by the Japs to make noisy diversions while their troops crept round to attack from the rear. But, said the American officer, "our boys are awake to all these tricks. They have not been confused . . . and have held their fire like veterans...
...Heavyweights. Most favored grasshopper is called the L4, a military adaptation of the ubiquitous Piper Cub with the cockpit enclosed in plastic. The observer rides backwards to watch for planes attacking from the rear. His other jobs: 1) operating the radio; 2) keeping his weight down to 170 (to shorten take-offs); 3) studying targets and fire with naked eye (the grasshopper jiggles too much for field glasses). The L-4 cruises at 70 m.p.h., is powered by a 65-h.p. engine - far less than artillery pilots would like for a quick take-off and climb. Eventually helicopters may supplant...