Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House chamber was jammed. Representatives were in the rear, then the Senators, the diplomatic corps, the Cabinet (eight present). In the gallery, Bess Truman, in dark coat and brown furs, had a front-row seat. Among the Democratic Representatives, a little girl grew bored with history and squirmed on her father...
This week, on Sunday, he drove to the First Baptist Church in a torrential rain. With members of his party he sat near the rear. Pastor J. C. Yelton, who had had only ten minutes' notice of the President's arrival, sang the offertory solo himself, preached on the subject of peace. As the skies began to clear, the President decided to extend his vacation by two days...
They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...
Midafternoon, the two sentries patrolling the entry through the barbed wire to Goldsmith House were startled by a small explosion in the rear of the building. Then bullets whizzed around them. One soldier fell, dead. A truck rumbled through the wire opening. Covered by a spray of machine gun and rifle fire from nearby buildings, three men dashed to the truck. Out of it and into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed...
Divorced. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheller Stone, 53, chief of the Italian Affairs section at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy, ex-head of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; by Louise Wardwell Stone; after twelve years, three children; in Reno...