Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increased the penalty for defacing or showing contempt for the flag from a one-to a five-year jail term or a fine of $1,000 to $5,000. Peter Stowe, an economics professor at Southern Illinois University, was haled into court under the law. In their car's rear window, his wife had stuck a flag decal with a peace sign where the stars should have been. Says Stowe: "I'm willing to live with people who think that the flag is sacred. But I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't lock me in jail...
...comfortable discussing cost efficiency with Pentagon experts as he is on the bridge of a destroyer. Zumwalt is an intellectual who respects, but refuses to be bound by, traditions. Described by a fellow officer as the Navy's "youngest everything," he was the service's youngest peacetime rear admiral at 44, and now is its youngest C.N.O. at 49. Zumwalt spent 20 months in Viet Nam, where he was responsible for the success of the Navy's "brown water" river fleet...
Onstage stood a mighty fortress of loudspeakers, looking like one of the barricades in Trovatore. As the thundering music began to jar the building, Met Assistant Manager Francis Robinson cowered inside a soundproof booth at the rear of the hall, touching his fingertips incredulously to the trembling walls. "Feel it," he said. At the end, when the group was booed for refusing to play an encore, Tommy's Composer Peter Townshend put the audience down emphatically by filling the historic hall with a distinctly nonoperatic four-letter word. Bing was more restrained. "I didn't understand a thing...
...family, and almost all of the employees, both now and in the past, have been relatives. As a boy, Angelo and his two brothers came in after school to sell papers and shine shoes until 9 p. m. The shoe shine shop, which is now attached to the rear of the store, was sold a number of years ago but retains the name "Felix...
...detectable by electronic reconnaissance. Yet neither Israeli recon flights nor U.S. electronic snooping devices have so far uncovered evidence of missile sites along the canal. Moreover, there are indications that the Russians are having difficulties with the SA-3s that have already been placed in position in the rear; they are intricate devices that have never been fired in combat, and there are signs that the Soviets have had difficulty calibrating them properly...