Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feathered Friends. Over Manhattan a chicken hawk peeled off, dived into the Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...
...Rear Admiral Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Callaghan was killed in this action, the third U.S. admiral to lose his life in battle (the others: Rear Admirals Isaac Kidd and John Wilcox...
...many men Rommel had been able to pull out of the fire. Winston Churchill said that 75,000 Axis troops had been put out of the fight. Cairo reported that ten Italian generals and some 30,000 other Axis captives had already reached the British Army's rear. Other thousands, not slain or wounded, still wandered in the desert. Rommel might have some 20,000 effectives left, plus a few Italian reserve divisions, a remnant of his original force, but still the nucleus of an army if it was permitted time and opportunity to reform...
From the bases already won, U.S. and British airmen can do much to relieve Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies...
...Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with Germany-in the rear of the Allied armies sweeping on toward Tunisia...