Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweating reporters now had enough to keep them busy all morning. They streamed out. The President had given an almost dazzling performance, like a juggler tossing colored balls in the air to take the audience's eyes off a necessary change of scenery in the rear of the stage...
...Despite continual bombing by British and U.S. planes, Tobruk and Bengasi were still open ports, through which a stream of men and supplies flowed from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...
...regiment of the famed Fliegerkorps parachutists from Crete was in Rommel's front line, getting acclimated for desert warfare. More thousands of parachutists and airborne infantrymen waited in Greece and Crete, whence they could directly attack the British rear along the coast, or be shifted to Africa for use from Rommel's airdromes...
...British patrols said that Rommel had withdrawn the bulk of his German troops to the rear for rest and refitting, had left Italians to hold most of the front. He evidently had a poor opinion of Britain's Eighth Army, and of the chances of a British offensive...
Representing every state in the Union, the men will receive certificates of course completion from Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, Jr., Commandant of the First Naval District, who is also the main speaker. Two radio singers, Conrad Thibeault and Vivean dela Cheza, will also be present to lead the singing of The Star Spangled Banner, and at 11 o'clock, 15 minutes of the ceremony will be broadcast over station WHDH...