Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck carrying the shell had stopped at a toll booth when another truck slammed into its rear. While the shell was rendered useless, the riggings for the boat are intact and will be moved to another Stempfly being borrowed from Princeton...
...pilot dropped back into subsonic flight. Again, no jolts or jars. The Concorde came home as smoothly as it went out, with its crazy tilt on touchdown; the rear wheels banged onto the runway, and the nose followed seconds later. We had been in the air for one hour and 39 minutes; we had covered 1,425 miles...
...slowly toward the end of the runway. I was twelve minutes away from personally breaking the sound barrier. Unlike the Boeing 707 and 747, which lumber into slowly gathering momentum, the Concorde has a sprinter's start. I was pushed gently but firmly into my backrest. From the rear of the plane I could see the nose leave the ground, tilting upward and upward until the fuselage looked like a tipping tunnel of love. From the inside, the noise was no louder than that of a normal jet. We were off the ground in seconds and climbing...
...pond, known as Muddy Pond to residents, is situated at the rear of 380 South St., Jamaica Plain, next to the Harvard-owned Arnold Arboretum. It has no fence around it and is not used for any arboretum-related activities. Local residents refer to it as "that smelly mudhole...
...Island to Manhattan, but when Zindel made it last week, it represented his emancipation. "Now maybe I'll be able to start living. Whoever I am was squashed," he says. Some public evidence of the past lingers; Zindel has another play, this one on Broadway, called And Miss Rear don Drinks a Little-about three sisters, all teachers. He is working on two plays, one the book for a musical, from the perspective of a new present and unknown future...