Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General de Gaulle was named president of a new Committee of National Defense, charged with the study of "general conditions" for fusing and organizing French forces. Other defense committee members: General Giraud; a new Army Chief of Staff, General Gilbert Leyer; a new Navy Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral André Georges Lemonnier; and Air Force Chief of Staff, René Bouscat...
...defensive front, under British and French command. These arrangements may have been unavoidable at the time, but they graveled Terry Allen. "I blooded them, didn't I?" he would say in aggrievement when he thought of his lost battalions. Finally, fuming at his divisionless division headquarters in the rear, he went to see General Eisenhower...
Lord Halifax, Britain's towering Ambassador to the U.S., fixed things so that when the smallish mayor of Nelson, B.C., delivered his welcoming oration at the depot they would be approximately face to face. The mayor stood on the train's rear platform, Halifax on the ground. "Ladies and gentlemen," began the mayor, as the train moved down the track...
...Different. With over 9,000 patients and only 19 deaths behind it, the Charlotte Evac now has the honor of handling casualties from Sicily and routing them to other evacs or to station hospitals in the rear. Most such medical units are volunteer doctor groups backed by rich, big-city hospitals. This evac is different: its medical staff is composed of young doctors from Charlotte, N.C., and a sprinkling of other doctors, mainly Southerners. As Charlotte has no rich hospital, initial support for the unit came from the proceeds of a local show and from contributions around town...
...that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther to the rear...