Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with Win" signs; on the placard in front, the words are lettered backward so they can be read in a motorist's rear-view mirror...
...motorcade's route, hundreds of Peronistas broke through police lines and swirled around the presidential Cadillac, hooting at Illia and cheering for De Gaulle and Perón. At one point, the surging crowd jammed the handlebar of an escorting motorcycle through the Cadillac's left rear window, slightly cutting Illia. The limousine carrying the First Ladies was forced onto the sidewalk. An hour later, rioting broke out again near where De Gaulle was to lunch. This time, police submachine guns sprayed bullets over the crowd. Tear gas filled the square. Fire hoses broke up charging groups while...
...President's limousine has been redesigned to permit two Secret Service men to sit facing the President in jump seats. In the car following the President's limousine, an agent with an automatic rifle now sits facing toward the rear-ready to fire should he spot a potential assassin aiming at the President from behind, as Lee Harvey Oswald did. Before Kennedy was killed, Secret Service files with names of persons potentially dangerous to the President contained no more than 400 names; now, thanks to broadened criteria for including names, those same Secret Service files list some...
...radar screen. The Edwards blew two of them out of the water for certain and shot up another one. I don't know if the Morton destroyed any or not. One of them boats like to got us. It was trying to sneak up on our rear end and almost succeeded. It came to within 2,000 yards before we blew...
...Charger may well be one of the most practical warplanes ever built. Its tail is high enough (13.7 ft.) and wide enough (20 ft.) to permit cargo trucks to back against the rear of its short fuselage. Jumping paratroopers have no clearance problem. On the ground, the plane can navigate through muck and mud by use of a steerable nosewheel, and it can be fitted out with pontoons for a water landing...