Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success at Yuyangkwan could be further exploited, the Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...
When the Japs left, the townsfolk returned. Of Yukiang nothing remained but desolation. In the streets, outside burned and wrecked buildings, lay dead bodies, bearing evidence of frightful tortures. Bishop Quinn looked for Father Verdini. In the rear of the priests' compound he found his sun helmet, a muddied jacket, human bones...
Enterprise's record shows clearly that she has been a tough ship, a lucky ship, a superbly handled ship, fortunate in her various commanders and in the high degree of teamwork achieved by her crew. One of her former captains is grey, smallish, soft-spoken Rear Admiral George D. Murray (now commandant at Pensacola), rated by officers who served with him as the ablest of carrier skippers...
...praised bee-busy workers at a Portland, Ore. launching, Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, salty chairman of the Maritime Commission, was reminded of a jingle. Hastily doctored transcriptions of the talk (broadcast later...
...Cabinet entered. Then Doorkeeper Ralph Roberts walked to the rear doors, turned, intoned: "Mr. Speaker! The Right Honorable Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain...