Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...
...wife in a mansion in the Country Club District (his two sons are in the building business), but he still spends most of his days and three evenings a week behind his office desk on city-planning projects. J.C. thinks they are of prime importance because "when you rear children in a good neighborhood, they will go out and fight Communism...
Czech In. The first postwar Tatra (Czechoslovak) automobile to reach the U.S. went on display in Manhattan. Low-slung, and fitted with a sliding sedan top, the Tatra has its air-cooled engine in the rear and a cyclops-eye headlight in addition to the usual two in front. Czechoslovakia's nationalized auto industry is producing the car at the rate of 3,000 a year, promises delivery in six weeks. Price: $6,200, plus...
...battlefield for five days. The only escape for a wounded man was to be helped from the field by his comrades. This was a fact that able-bodied soldiers soon learned to take advantage of: a casualty who had suffered only a slight scratch was sometimes helped to the rear by seven or eight unhurt soldiers ("the Civil War version of the escape mechanism [now] known as 'psychoneurosis...
...Navy's Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, ret. (famous for his wartime broadcasts to Japan), who likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike...