Word: reared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-level maneuvering at mighty G.M. to bring forth the Corvair mouse reads like a novel, but it's a lot of amiable nonsense. In this age of space miracles, why give so much importance to so small an accomplishment as moving a motor to the rear end? The day to celebrate a great achievement would be when G.M. designs a really safe...
...southern forces under Nishimura and Shima sailed right on. Nishimura had two battleships, a heavy cruiser and four destroyers; Shima, behind him, had two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers. Awaiting them at the far end of Surigao Strait was a much stronger Seventh Fleet force under Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf. Alerted by PT-boat reports, Oldendorf was ready...
...Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and was only minutes over the horizon. A half-hour later, Kurita's shells began splashing around "Taffy 3," one of Task Group 77-4's three task units, under Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague...
...front of Poe approached an intersection, slowed down to stop for a red light. Roscoe Poe kept going, and the truck crashed into the rear...
...fender tanks split; motor fuel washed against the bus's hot rear engine, and flames exploded into the sky. Screaming wildly, the girls struggled to get out, pushed toward the front of the bus. Professor Ernest Sixta, who had been sitting in the back, yelled, "Don't panic! Don't panic!" Bus Driver Carmen Nini opened his door, pushed out a few girls. Fighting his way through the billowing flames to the rear, he forced open the emergency doors and began shoving out others. "The heat was awful," said one girl. "I jumped to the street...