Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survived as a sick and frightened man who swears he has no idea who attacked him or why. Fortnight ago, Vincent Muratore, 43, rose before dawn to go to his wholesale produce stall at the market. He got as far as his car when someone fired through the rear window, killing him instantly. Two days later, Truck Gardener Antonio Monaco, 39, was gunned down outside his shack...
...Rear Window. At stake was the overlordship of Melbourne's bustling, 16-acre Victoria Market, beneath whose iron-roofed sheds are crowded the stalls of 800 produce growers and 200 agents. Work in the market starts at 2 a.m. as trucks roll in with produce from Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland, and the stalls fill with a babble of Mediterranean tongues-Italian, Greek, Yugoslav-as well as Australian-twanged English. Trading is almost entirely in cash, and an estimated $45 million worth of fruits and vegetables pass through Victoria Market every year...
Sometimes painful letter combinations turn up unasked for. The wife of a Houston judge burst into the registration office weeping, to beg relief from the ordeal of driving around town with P-U on her car's front and rear. A Los Angeles psychiatrist who found himself with a tag bearing the letters N-U-T explained that, while he did not mind it in the least, he was afraid some of his patients might think he was making fun of them...
...auto accidents are caused by motorists whose reaction time is somewhat slowed by a small seepage of carbon monoxide into a closed auto. If the exhaust and manifold are in good shape and fitted tight, the auto is probably safe. But it's even safer to leave a rear window open a crack...
...Americans aboard, and their Vietnamese crewman, never had a chance. As the battle blazed, the desperate Viet Cong poured murderous fire into the other whirlybirds. Fourteen more were hit but limped back to Saigon. On the second day another Huey, zeroing in on a Communist beach emplacement, lost its rear rotor to an enemy bullet, fell like a stone into...