Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind after a false start at 7:40 o'clock, Lowell House took the lead with a brisk 32, and was still ahead under the Harvard Bridge. Beyond the bridge, the five shells crowded together and the ensuing melee left Kirkland and Leverett with looked oars hopelessly in the rear...
When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...
...After five weeks of exploring the wastes of Antarctica,* Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was back in Washington. Though most Americans were surprised to see him home so soon, a small crowd of crew relatives, reporters and top Navy brass stood in a drizzle to watch the intrepid Admiral debark from the polar flagship, U.S.S. Mount Olympus...
...survey, set up by last year's pact between Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug and the miners' John L. Lewis, had been politically inspired. But there could be no doubt of its professional impartiality. The investigators, headed by Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, blamed both the mine owners and the United Mine Workers for the fact that a large part of the nation's mining population, "bypassed" by progress, "has benefited little by improved standards of housing and health." Some findings...
...Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...