Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silva gave a rescuer his tie. "I won't need this," he said. "I am going to die." He was wrong-though he was seriously injured-and authorities at week's end were anxiously awaiting his report. Early speculation was that the fire had started in the rear toilet section of the aircraft, possibly from a short circuit. If the pilot could have kept the plane airborne for only 90 seconds more, said Orly officials, their fire equipment might have quickly doused the flames and saved many lives...
...serrated, so they can close together as tightly as the vise of Destiny grips its victims. Sets of steel stairs roll in and out. When the panels are separated, we see in back a drop with a huge translucent circular screen, on which mobile projections are thrown from the rear...
...armored weapons carrier joined it. Wearing army uniforms, the crews dismounted and stood behind their vehicles, intently scanning the buildings around the square for possible snipers. Apparently they thought they spotted one on the sixth floor of the hotel, because they sprayed a window there with bullets. From the rear of the palace, which is less heavily defended, there was the sound of cannon, bazooka and machine-gun fire...
...solution that designer Ed Wittstein settled on was to construct a huge fixed set made up of portions of the required locales. In the rear we see tall diagonal cutouts representing the facades of London houses. To the left we have Horner's lodging, assumed to be on the second story since it is reached by a stairwell opening up through the stage floor. It is a lived-in space, decked out with a fireplace on whose mantle sit an hourglass, an astrolabe and a drinking-mug. There are a chandelier, a terrestrial globe on a stand, a mirror, antlers...
There were other games. At the top of his backswing, Johnny was told to aim the brass rivet on the left rear pocket of his Levi's at the ball. That helped him develop a smooth, rhythmic swing, which the pro said was "as natural as walking down the street." So that he would learn to perform under pressure, Johnny took on all comers on the putting green for up to 25? per hole. Slim as a seven iron, he also had to learn to make up in accuracy what he lacked in power. The tighter the fairways...