Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-designed automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day. The head, which I fortunately salvaged, I still carry around in my pocket. It was removed at the request of the driver, who could not see out of the rear window through the rear-view mirror. I am writing this left-handed from the hip. W. S. SHERMAN Chicago...
...Albert Lea, Minn., he put in a word for Senator Joe Ball, who deserted him in 1944 to support Roosevelt and who is now fighting for his political life against Minneapolis' bouncing Mayor Hubert Humphrey. Ball, smiling bleakly, was allowed to stand on the rear platform with the candidate. A tomato hurled by another hoodlum grazed Ball's shoulder...
...Republicanism-Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, Governor Kim Sigler-appeared. So did Mrs. George Dewey, the candidate's mother, whom he calls "Mater." She cried.: "Where's my Tommy?" With one arm around Mater and one around his wife, the candidate stood on the rear platform. "Was there ever such a lucky man as I am?" he asked the train-side crowd. "I have a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife and they are both here with...
...caught North China's Nationalist commander Fu Tso-yi badly off balance. A fortnight ago Communists had pushed up north of the Great Wall west of Tatung. When Fu's troops dashed westward to drive them back, another Communist force from the north came down in their rear to strike the rail line west of Peiping, threatening to sever it completely and cut Fu's army in two. If the Communists succeeded' in this, Peiping, Tientsin and all North China would be lost...
...manager of Bermuda's Belmont Manor Hotel stiffly requested the U.S. Navy to make the hotel "off bounds" for enlisted men. Rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle, the U.S. commandant, even more stiffly replied that he would put it off bounds for officers too. Said he: "The customs of my country do not permit discrimination between officers and men in public places...