Word: reared
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...dipping their long, angular gun barrels as they passed President Mohammed Ayub Khan's reviewing stand. Then the walls of the capital reverberated to the roar of a Pakistani Air Force flyby, led by four silvery MIG-19s. A flock of American-supplied aircraft trailed cautiously at the rear, mostly B57 bombers, F-86 Sabres and F-104 Starfighters. Ayub's armory had a new look, and he was flaunting it before his SEATO and CENTO allies...
...grey parachute, on a steep 70° slope on the ocean floor. The danger was that it might slip farther down the incline into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver. With that consideration in mind, Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 52, commander of the 15-vessel Task Force 65, put into action Plan Charlie to recover the unarmed 20-megaton weapon...
...Harvard Law School graduate who last year authored a book called Unsafe at Any Speed, which devoted a chapter to telling about the dangers of driving a 1960-63 model of Chevrolet's Corvair. Nader charged Corvair with sloppy-and therefore presumably unsafe-engineering in its rear suspension system...
...Task Force 65, the largest and most sophisticated search group in naval history, had gathered in the area. While 120 Navy divers made a shoulder-to-shoulder search along five miles of coastal water, ships equipped with ultra-sensitive sonar crisscrossed the 120-sq.-mi. search zone. But Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 50, commander of the task force, ordered three weird-looking submersibles, especially designed for deep-sea research, to pay special attention to the spot around the buoy...
...ordered them to the rear was about 5'10," stocky, about 180 lbs. He had a swarthy complexion with a dark scar on his face. His hair was long, black, greasy, and combed straight back. He wore a tan, zipper poplin jacket...