Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more they were menaced from the rear...
Bringing up the rear of Broadway's busiest week since December were two footsore comedies. Both tried for laughs on the subject of bastards; neither got any. It's A Gift featured a will bequeathing a large fortune to any female in the family who produced a love child. Happily Ever After featured a parson who had performed 10,000 marriages-without ever having been ordained...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...have sufficient prestige. His rank was below that of the Army Chief of Chaplains, Major General William R. Arnold, and his office was just an appendage of the Naval Bureau of Personnel. Last week, after a unanimous Senate vote, Chaplain Workman could not only sport the stripes of a rear admiral, but looked forward to coming home from a 25,000-mile Pacific tour to a brand-new office of the Chief of Naval Chaplains...
...Informed, positive Editor Peyton Boswell Jr. of Manhattan's bimonthly Art Digest picked a rear view of two weighty bathers portrayed with Van Gogh vehemence in a framework of writhing earth and lowering sky: The Green Pool by Connecticut's Revington Arthur...