Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would now have to play to the hilt, would not be easy. Peace had merely sharpened the questions which had lain dormant in the smoke of battle. The political problems of the Far East, thrown into focus by internal strife in China (see FOREIGN NEWS), suddenly seemed to rear higher than the old problems of Europe. But Europe's woes were still there, too, stirred by hunger and unrest...
...when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through into the dark kitchen in the rear...
...Orders. Kawabe bowed low to stone-faced Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland. MacArthur's chief of staff nodded, quickly led the six ranking members of the delegation to a conference with Willoughby, three other staff generals and Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman. For five strained hours, the victors extracted information about harbors and airfields around Tokyo, which Allied forces would need for their entry...
...designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, many another industrial laboratory. The U.S. also owes much to Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who, as chief of the Naval Research Laboratory, sparked its radar pioneering...
...Japanese . . . are asking for invasion and they are going to get it."-Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford. CJ Redeployment and retraining of U.S. troops will be speeded to permit the delivery of "a single crushing blow. . . . There's no use doing it piecemeal."-General Jacob L. Devers...