Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an observation post in the rear, Drew Middleton of the New York Times described what happened next...
...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
...Cunningham, wanted: 1) permission to use Dakar as a base against Nazi U-boats in the South Atlantic; 2) use of French Fleet units at Dakar. From Darlan in particular, Eisenhower wants the status quo maintained in Morocco and Algeria so that there will be no transport interruptions or rear-guard threats to Allied forces now attacking Tunisia...
Among the officers invited were Rear Admiral Wilson E. Brown, Commandant of the First Naval District; Captain John S. Barleon, Chief of Staff; Captain George N. Barker, Commanding the Naval Training Schools at Harvard; Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, Officer-in-charge of the Naval Supply Corps School at the Harvard Business School; Commander Charles A. MacGowan, Officer-in-charge of the Indoctrination and Communication School; Captain C. S. Joyce, Senior Naval Officer, Director of Naval Procurement; and other prominent Naval and civilian officials...
...flight compared with the weary, eight-month-long, 1,500-mile retreat of the "Ten Thousand Greeks" under Xenophon in 401 B.C.; the 1,000-mile retreat of Charles X of Sweden from Yaroslavl to Warsaw in 1656. Rommel had fought a moderately successful rear-guard action, covering his trail with anti-tank guns and mortars. He had also been lucky. Cyrenaica's rainy season had slowed Montgomery's pursuit...