Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foolery. In Kansas City, Autoist John B. Rullo, who guessed that he had been practically joked, promised to correct his license plates after police stopped him. His rear license plate announced: "Foo-Goo." Contradicted the front...
...light enough to see our little Honey tanks emerging from dust clouds in our rear and going into position below us. German observers also saw the tanks...
...bushes. On the other side of the ravine was a steep hill-the one which Captains Kelly and Belisle had already gone ahead to take. Kelly's company and a company from another battalion were on the slope nearest us; Belisle's company was on the rear slope, out of our sight...
...guns and the Honeys took the steam out of the Germans; they withdrew a little. Momentarily our rear was safe. But with the 3rd battalion driven back on our right, our position was still uncertain. The only thing to do, said the Colonel, was to attack, take White House Hill and deprive the Germans of observation. It did not matter that we would be isolated. We had to take the hill...
Just after noon, the rocket guns started up again. This time they were not shelling our rear. They were not shelling our tanks. They were shelling us. That noise, that approaching roar, drowned out even the power to think. On the hill up which our soldiers were struggling, the rocket shells started fires. Soon, to the normal noise of the battlefield, was added the crackle and hiss of flames...