Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it originally held. Even so, because they fear genocide at the hands of the other Nigerian tribes if they are defeated, the Ibo stubbornly fight on. They have managed to hold Port Harcourt, Biafra's main port, and have fought a hard rear-guard action. Frustrated by its failure to win a decisive victory, the federal government has tried to break the Biafrans by stepping up its bombing of their countryside, using Russian-supplied planes and bombs and Egyptian pilots...
Equipped with bloated rear tires, it rolls as easily over beaches as a dune buggy; wearing snow tires, it can roam freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...first three issues of Avant-Garde, promise has outrun performance, prudence has conquered prurience. The magazine is more rear-garde than avant. Its graphics are stylish, but its contents are strictly remembrances of erotica past. Issue 3, out last week, contains a story by Norman Mailer, The Taming of Denise Gondelman, about the heroic efforts of a blond Aryan to bring an intellectual Jewish girl to her first orgasm. It was published in 1959 as The Time of Her Time. A tale by Roald Dahl of a wily Arab who lures eligible young men to his home to make love...
This amusing western has a racial equality angle, an avalanche, a locoweed stampede, Shelley Winters chomping cigars, and Agnes-an educated horse that sits on its rear end for a strategy conference with Burt Lancaster. Most important, it has Ossie Davis, one of the nation's finest Negro actors...
Nordhoff had his designers revamp the old model, ordered some of the original Porsche designs redrawn ten times. He boosted horsepower in the rear-mounted, air-cooled engine, installed hydraulic brakes and shock absorbers...