Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, the Senate listened indifferently to the arguments of a small rear guard of New Dealers against the Taft-Hartley labor bill. When the vote came, 17 Democrats joined the Republicans to pass the bill, 54 to 17. The House had already passed it, 320 to 79-plenty of votes, if the lines held, to override a presidential veto...
Just back from London, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, stoutly urged the Hindu, Moslem and other leaders and princes to accept Britain's plan to keep India united
Composer Shostakovich attended most of the festival's 38 concerts, but stood unobtrusively in the rear of the hall during rehearsals of his own works. In his free time, he browsed in Prague music stores for music-scores and records-bought new clothes, attended a supper party at the U.S. Embassy, where he ate a lot, drank little, showed a great liking for American cigarets...
Education of a G.I. Like many U.S. soldiers, Burns was shocked out of his complacency by the war. Gallery is a clear measure of his distaste for the bad manners of American troops, their black marketeering, their thoughtlessly insulting treatment of Europeans. His portraits of promotion-hungry, rear-echelon officers are often bitter and embarrassingly accurate...
Agreement to Disunite. Far away from the Jumna's banks, in the quiet atmosphere of London's No. 10 Downing St., a Briton who had striven desperately to save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...