Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, during a surprise visit to Hanoi, China's Premier Chou En-lai retaliated by indulging in a little psychological warfare himself. North Viet Nam and China, he said, are "the front line" and "the rear area" of the war. The two countries are as closely linked as "lips and teeth." Should the U.S. "go down the road of expanding its war of aggression," declared a communique signed by Chou and Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong, the Chinese people would "take all necessary measures, not flinching even from the greatest national sacrifices," to help the North...
...Warrant Officer Fred Hayden, 27, set down his cup of tea and sprinted out onto the oil-soaked pad. Zipped into his brown flame-resistant flight suit, he had already scrambled into the front seat of his Cobra by the time Copilot Ronald Lee Walters, 22, clambered into the rear. Within two minutes the Cobra was bound for Fire Base Ranger on a hilltop eight miles inside Laos, where South Vietnamese troops were trying to fight off a North Vietnamese attack...
Since the airfield came under regular shelling attacks, most of the helicopters.used to support the Laos operation have been flown to Dong Ha, Quang Tri, and other rear bases...
...members of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big band onto the tablecloth-size stage of Manhattan's Village Vanguard is like trying to wedge the master singers of Nuremberg into Rodolfo's garret hole in Paris. The jam requires the four trumpeters to stand against the rear wall all night long. If he is not careful, a sax player can easily get a shot in the ear from a sliding trombone...
...complex piece like Thad's Tiptoe, which halfway on involves something very like a musical multiple-choice quiz between Drummer Mel and everybody else, the players follow each other's fun as avidly as the audience. Laughter, even whoops of joy fly out. Back at the rear wall, an extra-special solo flight by one trumpeter is guaranteed to bring an energetic handshake from another...