Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
...ball in the Emerson Hotel, the pace picked up. Zantzinger stung a Negro bellhop's rear with his cane. After a few bourbons and ginger at the open bar, he asked a Negro waitress, Mrs. Ethel Hill, 30, something about a firemen's fund. She said she did not know what he meant. "Don't say no to me, you nigger, say no, sir," said Zantzinger. He flailed her with the cane. She fled to the kitchen...
...Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed, and putting in her first appearances as Vogue's top editor, made up for it all by making more noise. Leaning slightly to one side or the other-the staff sits just a touch to the rear of the Queen-and dispensing cigarette ashes as if she were favoring the carpet, she shared her various comments ("Perfectly DREADFUL, my dear, don't you think?" "Perfectly GLORIOUS! my dear, don't you think?") with the room at large and even, some thought, with the outlying suburbs...
...shaped tail lifted off the runway at the Boeing Co.'s Renton plant near Seattle on its successful maiden flight. The plane is the Trijet medium-range 727, roughly three-quarters as large as Boeing's 707 and powered by three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold new models that threaten to unseat the U.S. from its traditional position as the world...
...trend that gives airline operators pause is the steady movement of passengers to the rear of the big jets. With flying hours cut in half by jets, most air travelers would rather have lower fares and fewer frills in the aft coach section than filet mignon and champagne in first class up front. Because the saving is considerable ($43.89 below first class from New York to Los Angeles), more and more corporations are directing their salesmen and executives to fly coach. So is the Government; only the top brass now fly first class. Some airlines have as little...