Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from every side. . . . Third Army's eviscerating dagger remained pinned and unblunted...
...Last June, 40 sheep and I had a memorable trip en route to Taiyuan in a transport plane. Twice I helped the co-pilot herd the sheep out of the plane's tail after they had jumped the rear fence of their bamboo corral and made the plane tail-heavy. When I told the pilot what had happened, he mused: 'I wondered why this damned airplane was dragging...
Agriculture now believes it has the situation under control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
Union Shoppers. Preston Tucker, designer of the rear-engined Tucker auto, announced that he had, cleared $15,007,000 on the sale of Tucker Corp. stock, now had enough cash to keep his lease on the surplus Chicago Dodge plant (TIME, July 7). Among the major investors was the U.A.W.-C.I.O., which plunked...
...Sophie's first marriage), in a modernized four-story house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. (Their twin beds have "Sophie" and "Adam" cosily embroidered on the pillowslips.) Sophie's hobbies are collecting china dogs and raising tulips and rhododendrons in the small garden in the rear. They also lease a small, seven-room country house near Red Bank...