Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds were deceptive. For both Nixon and his most ardent defenders, the occasion was, properly enough, a performance. After the initial ceremonial greeting, the applause came almost entirely from the Republican side of the House chamber. It was repeatedly led by a shouting group of cheerleaders at the rear of the G.O.P. ranks, while the Democrats generally listened in silence. Twice, standing ovations were precipitated by a justifiably partisan gallery observer: Pat Nixon.-She rose, was followed by other members of the First Family and close aides, and the movement then spread to the Republican side of the floor...
Curious Booty. Two miles north of Port Taufiq, we crossed the canal on a barge to join the Third Army on the east bank. On a broad sandy plain, a curious collection had been assembled. To the rear, in a 100-yard semicircle, were arranged captured Israeli tanks, guns, missiles, shells and even the wreckage of a Phantom jet. In the center of the semicircle a white monument had been erected honoring the men who died during the Israeli siege of the army. In between booty and monument, officers and men representing all units of the Third Army were drawn...
...what else to do with a tenor, put him on a staircase. In Vespri, everybody has been put on a staircase, which suggests that Director Dexter did not always know what else to do with his singers. The stairs (38 in all) rise gradually from the apron to stage rear and, depending on the scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this has its effective moments, although it seldom looks like medieval Sicily. What Dexter...
Following Princeton, Cornell has an even 3-3 slate for six points, Penn is 3-5, and Yale stands at 2-3 for only four points. Brown brings up the rear as the Bruins were 1-5 going into last night's contest with Harvard...
...plumbers soon turned up a prime suspect: Yeoman First Class Charles E. Radford, now 30. He was serving as admiral's writer (military parlance for secretary-stenographer) to Rear Admiral Robert O. Welander, now 49, who was the Joint Chiefs' liaison to the National Security Council. Welander's job was to attend NSC meetings, take notes and brief the Chiefs on what happened, as well as to pass on other authorized data about foreign policy...