Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks are suicidal. Last week the Navy confirmed reports that the Japs were building a special Kamikaze plane, with a cockpit into which the pilot is locked before the takeoff. The plane (reportedly in production in Manchuria) is a pusher type, engine and propeller at the rear of the fuselage. Its torpedo-like nose carries a long ton (2,240 Ibs.) of explosive, fused to let go upon impact of nose or wings...
...years later, was at the Trumans' modest five-room apartment at 4701 Connecticut Avenue. When she heard what her husband had to tell her, she wept. A few minutes later, with the Trumans' daughter (and only child), 21-year-old Mary Margaret, she left by a rear door. A White House car was waiting...
...Marshal Sir Harold R. L. Alexander: "The moment now has come for us to take the field for the last battle which will end the war in Europe." The French high-command added a word: their troops were attacking along the Italo-French border to strike for the German rear...
...Katzenjammer twins, Fauria and Dranetz, have looked especially broad from the rear during this week, it is not due to too much calisthenics, but to a set of pillows which the boys found necessary after last Sunday's riding experience. Having seen how these two Mighty Mites have suffered how could anyone think of trying such sport again...
Dawn was not far past when U.S. search planes picked the fleet up southwest of Kyushu and flashed the word to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58. Task groups under Rear Admirals Frederick C. Sherman, Arthur W. Radford, Joseph James ("Jocko") Clark and Gerald F. Began surged forward, ran for the oncoming Japanese. At noon they launched their planes...