Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fronts which helps the army and the guerilla fighters maintain themselves and also provides a market for Chinese farmers who would otherwise be compelled to sell to the Japanese; the Second Line comprising 1000 cooperatives operating in the remaining unoccupied regions of China's Southeast and Southwest; and the Rear Line in China's far west which concentrates on heavy, permanent industry...
Technical Sergeant Anton Budgen leaned down from the gun turret above me, and then he nicked a switch, turning on the interphone system. "Andy, there's two pursuits on our left and above us," said Lyle Winchell, our rear gunner. "Okay, Okay," said Pilot V. M. Anders. "Keep your...
Connecticut-born Sergeant O'Connell writes his verse when most soldiers are asleep. In the stifling heat of a rear base in Papua, he dictates by muffled flashlight to 23-year-old Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...
Last week, exhausted from the grind, he too was ready to come home on leave. But he wanted to make one last reconnaissance flight to the front. As he hurried back to a rear base of the U.S. Air Forces, the weather settled down on him in the midst of the mountains, his plane crashed into a mountainside. Two days later a searching party found his smashed plane, his body beside it, lightly covered with snow...
...three stars (Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy, Robert Taylor) who attempt to impersonate naval officers in the picture, Mr. Laughton, as an irascible old rear admiral, is the loudest and funniest. His climactic line comes when he is handed a signaled message from the destroyer just after the battle. He pauses before reading it to declaim to his fellow officers on the bridge of his flagship: "This message . . . will probably be as famous in the American Navy as Perry's 'We have met the enemy and they are ours.' . . ." The message...