Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advanced, some men turned their backs. He managed to grab the hands of a few and ducked into the Democratic cloakroom. Then he reappeared in the rear of the Chamber, sucking on a cigar, and shook hands with Tennessee's old spoilsman, Kenneth McKellar. The arena was noisy with confusion. On the rostrum Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle banged the little ivory block on the desk of the presiding officer and convened the Senate of the 80th Congress...
Over 200 experts in the fields of government, education, and industry, packing the first session of the conference heard Rear Admiral C. T. Joy, USN, pledge the availability of naval calculators to all scientists, in an opening address...
...last expedition (1935) Rear Admiral Richard Byrd recorded a temperature of -90° F., almost equaling Siberia's record. He believes that the air above the polar plateau may be found to fall below...
...Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, U.S.N. (rtd.) is a man with several missions, none of them much of a secret any more. One is to put the story of his professional career in what strikes him as the proper public light (despite his specialized knowledge of the Japanese language and Japanese navy, Annapolis-trained Ellis Zacharias remained a captain during World War II, reached flag rank only at his recent retirement). The others are: 1) to plead the case for broader and better U.S. naval intelligence; 2) to blast away at U.S. naval stupidity; 3) to make sure that nobody...
Uphill Fight. Later in the war Zacharias was called back to Washington as second in command of the Office of Naval Intelligence, under Rear Admiral Harold C. Train ("who had never had one day's experience in intelligence work"). It was an "uphill fight . . . against obstruction and inertia." Then, "just when I was at the top of my successes, and was planning new ones ... I was ordered to sea in command of the battleship New Mexico. All of my subordinates were amazed . . . and so was I. . . . It will have to be credited to the fact that I was moving...