Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main battalion force soon had an even larger tragedy on its hands. At dawn, two platoons of C Company manning X Ray's southeast corner fanned out on patrol. The Communists cunningly sniped and retreated ahead of them, then sprang an ambush from the flanks and rear. Simultaneously a direct Red onslaught smashed head-on at the main ¶Company positions back at the landing zone, diverting both attention and possible aid to the two trapped platoons. Both were virtually annihilated. When relief forces arrived, they found several G.I.s who had been taken prisoner, later shot with their feet...
...several hundred miles per hour by an auxiliary turbojet or rocket engine, or get a lift from a conventional plane. After that, enough air is rammed into the engine's front inlet to set up a pressure barrier that forces the burning gases to escape at the rear, thus providing thrust (see diagram...
...court refused to review an 82-day rap for disorderly conduct. Shuttlesworth got that one during his 1958 effort to desegregate Birmingham buses. His crime: not moving to the rear...
...woman passenger forced open an emergency door, and, after diving headfirst onto the wing, dropped to the ground. Others followed; 50, including the entire crew of six, survived-three without a scratch. Forty-one others in the rear of the plane died-many as they pushed in panic toward the exits...
...became a Western adventurer: "We did not dream how commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life of the citizen. Have prosperity and a plenitude of leisure softened the American, converting him into a creature fit only...