Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speakers at the graduation ceremony were Rear Admiral F. G. Pyne, SC, USN, former officer-in-charge of the Navy Finance and Supply Corps School in Philadelphia, Dean D. Vanderblue of Northwestern University, and Captain Kenneth Mackintosh present Officer-in-charge of the school...
Holyoke bigwigs are planning to substitute salads, soups and various other concoctions in place of the more hefty fare. To prevent the complete breakdown of Holyoke's home front as well as rear, the Union has already offered its recipe for its own inimitable Cockee Leeckee...
...other officers by telling them little or nothing of his plans. His defeat of the Union General Banks, and his capture of Winchester in May, 1862, was accomplished through a long chain of decisions and actions that involved the closest kind of calculation; he probably struck Banks's rear on the only day he could have done so. To reach the ridges south of Winchester before the Union forces could man them, he drove his men beyond exhaustion. "I am obliged to sweat them tonight," he said, "that I may save their blood tomorrow...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
...were there to hear mop-maned Leopold Stokowski and the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Shostakovich's new Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony (TIME, July 20). Black-tailed musicians filed out in the jerry-built unpainted shell. When a shapely blonde violinist took her place in the rear row, the fun began. "Bring her up front," yelled the soldiers...