Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time the boarding seemed imminent until the final message, Pueblo's communications were relayed simultaneously from Yokosuka through several command tiers to the office of the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) in Honolulu and all the way to Washington. Yet there were some unaccountable lapses. At Yokosuka, Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson got the messages quickly enough, but he knew that there were no naval aircraft available to help Pueblo. He turned at once to the Air Force's Lieut. General Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief of the Fifth...
...describing the development of man's sexual attitudes, Morris offers some ingenious observations. At some point in time, he says, the male of the species began to make his sexual approach from the front of the female instead of from the rear. As a result, the male was no longer provided with the immediate attraction of the female buttocks. It is in compensation for that loss, Morris insists, that women are now endowed with an enticement that no other female primate possesses: the "protuberant, hemispherical breasts" that "must surely be copies of the fleshy buttocks...
...standings for the Corcoran Cup--a series of three giant slalom races held at Waterville Valley, N.H. The field of over 90 racers featured members of the national "B" team and of the Eastern Alpine squad. In the first race on Saturday two freshmen, Alan Watson and Jay O'Rear, finished 10th and 12th...
Preparing for a consumer comeback next year, Mercedes is readying a new line. Though the company is keeping quiet about details, the new line will have more power than the 105-h.p. 200s, appear without the rear-fender fins that Mercedes picked up from Detroit...
...lift it at high speeds and ease the strain on the rotor blades overhead. Vertical takeoffs and landings, plus its hovering capability, are aided by a tail-mounted stabilizing rotor. Increasing its acceleration capacity, which carries the Cheyenne from zero-hover to 230 m.p.h. in 38 seconds, is a rear-mounted pusher propeller. Moreover, the plane can decelerate from this speed to zero-hover in 17 seconds...