Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dean Bender was still Counsellor for Veterans back in the spring of 1946-- he "academic foxholes." He was thinking mainly of those veterans who wanted to rear through college, "making up for lost time," and consequently putting everything but grades far to the side. The other day somebody made a remark which I would like to pass on to Dean Bender, in case he is still worrying, as evidence that the era of the "academic foxhole" is pretty much gone...
When shooting broke out the night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
...London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns some wide acres in Arizona) jumped from his car, caught the ornery critter by the bridle, led it to the safety of the bridle path. Then, in true western hero style, he shyly left the scene without even asking the name of the rescued lady...
...ropes, Miss Heaton pointed out, are attached to small, high windows, and in some cases one is assigned to three students. She added that the twisting rear stairway of the house is poorly lighted and has no fire doors at all, and that the basement also lacks flame-blocking doorways...
...then there was that damn turkey. A couple of guys, Harvard cheerleaders by the looks of them, brought this tough old bird over to do combat. But Dan wasn't having any, not with something that flew and pecked and scratched. He showed the turkey his rear and made it very plan he wanted to be left alone. After the game, when the noise really started, Dan made a boe-line for New Haven where a man can be among friends when he's feeling blue...