Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rear Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf, commanding a powerful, balanced task force, put into effect his policy of "never give a sucker an even break." If the Japs were suckers enough to try to drive through the Strait, he meant to let them come. They came, into the twelve-mile-wide pass between Hingatungan and well-named Desolation Point...
...sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear. In the final stages the last British remnants in North Wales were cleaned up completing the occupation of England...
...engineers the chief point of interest was the bomb's simple power system. In the usual jet-propulsion machine, air is taken in at the front, compressed by a turbine-driven mechanical compressor (e.g., a fan), then mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber and expelled at the rear, the impact of the expanding air and gas, like a gun's recoil, giving the machine its push. But a compressor would have added greatly to the bomb's weight and complexity. To eliminate it, the Nazis hit on a way to use the force of the inrushing...
...when a breakthrough of the Gothic Line has definitely been claimed? That is the question being heard from armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured, the Fifth was over the crest of the mountains, could at last look down at Bologna...
...playing to the left of the center. The blocking back stands exactly behind the inside tackle, while the other three line up in a row about three yards behind the line. the fullback and tallback are behind the right and left guards, respectively, with the wingback directly to the rear of the right...