Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spoonerisms,"† and familiar fables in a gobbledygook of backtalk. (Examples: the Pee Little Thrigs, Wink van Ripple, the Beeping Sleauty, Paul Revide's Rear...
...that rocks would fall and seal a railroad tunnel below. Over the target, a burst of flak knocked out one engine, then the other engine went out. When the order came to bail out, the tailgunner went out first, and got stuck in the escape hatch, pinned against the rear of it by the wind pressure. Chappuis kicked him in the only accessible place-his head -and knocked him loose. Then he jumped...
...mixed week for Auto Designer Preston Tucker. On the good side, the War Assets Administration extended his temporary lease on part of the huge surplus Dodge plant in Chicago for ten years. On the not-so-good side, Tucker took full-page ads to explain that his rear-engined Tucker '48 would be "coming off production lines in a matter of months"-instead of by Christmas, as he had originally announced. He was also sued for $900,000 by Harold A. Karsten, one of the organizers of Tucker's company (TIME, July 7). Karsten charged that Tucker...
Mata Haris was available to fight the Communists. Through a crack in the rear window shutter (the press was barred from the theater), the reporter watched the girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they...
Married. Katherine Ames Byrd, 23, second of three daughters of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; and Robert Garnett Breyer, 29, strapping ex-Army major employed in an automobile agency; in Boston...