Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BOWEN Rear Admiral, U.S.N.R. Chief, Research and Inventions Washington...
Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...
...will assume his rank of rear admiral as soon as he is detached from the Midway...
Animal Crashers. In Lexington, Mass., a deer charged through the front door of a music shop, charged out the rear. In Orange, Va., a footloose bull entered a department store, was captured before he found the china department...
...fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered...