Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...
...rolled through Matrûh, where Rommel's overturned guns and tanks lay like beetles on their backs in the African sun. He did not destroy Rommel there. Rommel with the fleeing fraction of his army escaped through Hellfire Pass, where a few New Zealanders routed his rear guard...
...Cloud by Day. Rommel, through the 13 weeks of the pursuit, kept carefully out of reach. He abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast...
...history.* From Leningrad to the Black Sea, along a 1,500-mile front (see map), the Red Army was staging one operation with one purpose: to break the German hold upon Russia at every point where the Wehrmacht had anchored its lines, then to smash into and destroy the rear systems of communication and supply, without which the Germans cannot recover in the spring...
...various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready. As he descends the other side a Jap dummy swings out at his right and must be bayoneted. A shrieking jungle fighter closes in from the rear and must be grappled with. A machine gun opens fire. The trainee must fall, heave a hand grenade at the gun, seize the gun and turn it on two other fleeing men. Most trainees finish the course beat out, but on their feet...