Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrapped the U.S. plans for the ceremony, sent American subordinate officers to the rear of the platform, ruled out friendly U.S. messages to the people of Hiroshima. As honor guests on the platform he installed the members of an Australian parliamentary delegation. When he rose to speak, he briefly delivered MacArthur's greetings, then referred to the bombing of Hiroshima in words the Japanese have not heard for some time. Said Brasshat Robertson: "This disaster was your own fault. . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
...sultry afternoon last month, the four bought tickets for Hong Kong. Wong sat in the rear of the plane. Chiu Tok chose a seat near the compartment where two pilots, Dale Cramer, an American, and K. S. McDuff, sat at the controls. The pirates looked hungrily at four of their fellow passengers. They were Chinese millionaires who would bring fat ransoms...
...boarded the plane, the fishing junks found only one survivor-baby-faced Wong, who had managed to jump from a rear emergency exit. With a fractured leg, he was brought into a Macao hospital, where he confessed...
...When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed air by combustion shoves a jet of hot, high-speed gas out the rear end with a noise like thunder. There is nothing inside a typical ramjet except fuel nozzles and a gridlike "flame-holder" to keep the flame from being blown out by the airstream...
Johnny West pushed the truck driver into the bushes, shot him in the head and chest, climbed behind the truck's wheel. Daniels got into one of the new canvas-draped cars in the rear. They rolled on unchallenged through one of Ohio's greatest man hunts...