Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident that gave Brazilians a bad moment. Driving up into the mountains to lunch with Ernesto G. Fontes, a wealthy Brazilian businessman who had also entertained Franklin Roosevelt on his visit to Brazil in 1936, the President's heavy car skidded on the slippery road. The left rear wheel went over a low curb and came to rest a few feet from a precipitous decline. Truman refused to get out as Secret Service men heaved the car back on to the road. Said Harry Truman: "I'm all right. Why, I have done the same thing myself many...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
Last week, fingers snapping, eyes flashing behind her glasses, Chippie shouted through the applause: "What you wanna hear now?" From the bar at the rear a man's deep voice rose clearly above the noise: "Just sing, Chippie, just sing." So Chippie just sang: Steady Roll, Trouble in Mind, Baby Won't You Please Come Home...
...didn't know you gave them in the rear," he muttered...
This vanguard contingent is all sixth and seventh term men, who will be followed next Monday and Tuesday by third and fourth termers, respectively. Men in their fifth term bring up the rear a week from Friday...