Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear. By the time it fell, most of Zhukov's columns were closing around Lódź, 70 miles to the west...
Heading the list of guests to be present at the V-12 and NROTC Regimental Ball scheduled for tonight in Eliot House Chow Hall are Rear Admiral Felix Gygax, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District, and Mrs. Gygax...
Part the First. So vast was the armada under Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...
When the thaw came, fog settled. On most days Cub artillery spotters could get off the ground, and some days heavy bombers were able to attack rear bases and communications by using their "mickeys" (radar bombsights). But for ten straight days, Allied tactical air support was pinned to the ground, except for a few ineffective sorties...
...Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, long absent from the headlines because of his secret war duties, received the Legion of Merit in a chatty, informal White House ceremony. Cited for "outstanding services" in surveying Pacific islands, the explorer was called "Dick" by the President, who remarked that the medal was "one of the loveliest ones we have." Said greying Admiral Byrd: "Thank you, Franklin...