Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...
Hijacked. In Los Angeles, Walter Standard returned to his car, found its rear end jacked up and two 'tires gone, rushed to call police, returned again, found the jack gone...
Brash. Joe McCarthy proved his nerve overseas by voluntarily riding the rear seat of his squadron's dive bombers in action. His political nerve was equally great. The convention which nominated him gave him the vote with misgiving. He was almost an unknown and he was up against one of Washington's most respected legislators. McCarthy grinned and set out determined to shake every hand in Wisconsin...
...Funster squad placed third, Lowell fourth, and Adams brought up the rear. Lowell's Robert Goodspeed was the single man star of the meet, breaking the tape twice, with a time of 1 minute 5.1 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle, and two minutes 26.8 seconds in the 200-yard stretch...
Highway Huff. In Los Angeles, Bus Driver Dean Helmick again & again chanted "Step to the rear of the bus, please," lost patience when no one budged, glumly swung off his route, drove into a terminal, got out, went home...