Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after day, while Mrs. Truman lazed and read detective stories, and Margaret, a photo fan, experimented with her four cameras, the President concentrated on swimming, sitting in the sun and taking long afternoon naps. He got up early, as usual. One morning he teamed up with his naval aide, Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, beat Clark Clifford and Dr. John R. Steelman at horseshoes, 21-9 (the President got two ringers...
...over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory, his Duguay was limping badly as she sailed southward...
When the Study was founded, on a special University fund in 1938, it moved into its present home. The building, which once contained athletic facilities, was remodeled, and offices replaced the squash courts. A swimming pool in the rear is now used by a drama group for rehearsals, with the Study's permission...
...American people showered them with rice, pinned them against the canopy in defiance of police lines, finally allowed them to get to their car. An elderly woman darted under the arm of a policeman and rapped peremptorily on the rear window. "All I want to do is shake hands with him," she told the cop defiantly. (The Veep rolled down a window and obliged.) Other women stormed into the church and briskly stripped the chancel of every last chrysanthemum, camellia and fern...
Dickter, a 19 year old pre-medical student, died when his car struck a tree and burned. Police said that the impact of the crash had tossed him into the rear seat. He was alone in the car at the time of the accident...