Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Secretary Patterson wired Smith: "Your strikes . . . represent no honest grievance. . . . You are striking our fighting men from the rear. The War Department insists these strikes be stopped at once...
...dangerous judgment on Argentina. Others welcomed the conference, now that Argentina had asked for it. Said one pro-U.S. diplomat: "We are divided. Some are cursing the Argentines' mothers, others their fathers." Said another: "This is a beautiful chance to spank the Argentines on their rear ends where they keep their brains.'' Said a third: "Now the party begins. We shall have bullfights...
...westward and a great naval supply system, from Pearl Harbor to Australia, was left behind. In its stead, another of the Navy's imposing monuments to U.S. speed and ingenuity was built and implemented. By last week one of its secret-wrapped bases was far enough in the rear for the Navy to feel safe in unwrapping it. The base was Manus in the Admiralty Islands, more than 6,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, a key supply and repair point for the Philippine invasion...
Those improvised island bases, planned by burly Rear Admiral Ben Moreell and his Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, and built by Seabees, were among the wonders of the war. Never-never towns like Pago Pago were transformed. Nouméa became a little Pearl Harbor, with shipping crowding its lovely harbor, sailors over running its narrow streets, installations mushrooming on its mountains...
...five Negro bluejackets who had behaved with exceptional courage during the Port Chicago disaster, Rear Admiral Carleton H. Wright last week awarded Navy and Marine Corps medals...