Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tour guide was Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's genial doctor. His seven-page report covering Ford's annual physical was given out in all its glorious detail. Dr. Lukash had opposed release; Ford ordered it done. As a matter of fact, after one gets through Ford's postnasal drip and a severe cramp in his left calf, the report turns out to be one of the best documents recently issued from the White House. Ford is in bully health...
After the blowout came two hard months. Caught between lines--Harvard to the rear, who knows what ahead--I floundered. The job offered little solace. It gobbled my energies and attention, but after work I still had to go home, and a two-room apartment, however small, is large alone...
While the speeds on Woodward have decreased, the number of teenagers who parade their cars up and down the road has not. Supersized mag wheels on the back axle make the cars look as if they are always pointed downhill, and garter belts hang from rear-view mirrors as a sign of sexual conquest. Owning and maintaining a car at an early age is a special status symbol around Detroit. It provides exitement and an identity for students whose careers are already a thing of the past when they enter high school...
...distant future," predicts Lieut. Commander Kathleen Byerly?and none of her fellow (or sister) officers would be surprised if Byerly herself reaches that rank. At 31 she is a crisply confident Navy executive, the first woman ever promoted to serve as flag secretary and aide to an admiral, Rear Admiral Allen Hill. In the past, WAVE officers did work on staffs of admirals, but had far less authority than Byerly. She heads the admiral's staff and handles all liaison between his headquarters and the nine Pacific training commands. Her husband Kellie is also a lieutenant commander. When he once...
...born weeper. When we were all young and attended the theater, we would say, "Don't sit behind John." If the play was at all moving, he would begin to weep. And his tears had a funny habit of squirting off to the rear, so that if you were behind him you would...