Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides these combat losses, 85,219 had died from other causes (illness and rear-area accidents). The awesome total: 308,978. The latest Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard figures show 87,659 dead and missing, for a U.S. armed forces total...
...Rear Admiral Thorvald A. Solberg, in command of the target ship's salvage operation, ordered his crews away from the light carrier Independence, hardest hit of the big ships, because Geiger counters indicated the waters contained radio-activity five times greater than a human being could safely endure
...first detachment was made up of Navy families. A rear admiral's wife and commanders' wives mingled at the ship's rail with enlisted men's wives. Taught by experience, the Navy had leveled caste distinctions during the voyage and on arrival at Yokosuka...
...ages lost in the drifts of time, some of the most mysterious eyes on earth have stared cryptically toward tiny Bikini Atoll. On Easter Island, outrigger of the fleets of archipelagoes that ride the Pacific Ocean, a long file of stone colossi rear cold, immortal faces. No one knows what men carved these gigantic symbols, what hands, what primitive technology raised them, with what devotion or what fears. Whether they are gods or images of human greatness, they are menacing; they are monuments to the fact that man's history can perish utterly from the earth...
Indiana politicos knew that their Republican Governor Ralph Gates had been building a state-wide machine ever since he was elected two years ago. But it was strictly rear-wheel drive-a conventional Republican model with low-pressure heads and reciprocating county chairmen. It would run on alcohol if necessary. Nobody was overenthusiastic when it was brought to Indianapolis last week for the Republican State Convention...