Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never been seen by the human eye. Most, but not all of it is covered with level, monotonous névé (permanent snowfield feeding the continent's icecap). In many places, great peaks stick up through the ice, as bare and forbidding as mountains on the moon. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's commander, thinks there may be ranges 15,000 ft. high...
Said Peggy, practically in her own words: "All I know is that someone came up on me from the rear. . . . Hands and lips on my shoulders! And then Joey popped him one. . . . These people who think they own you because you're a public figure! . . . Never in all my years! It's just not de rigueur...
...Vanech, to devise rules
for keeping subversive or disloyal employes out of federal service.
¶Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
What Others See. In best holdup style, Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...reserved seat section (including 225 of its 1900 seats) and its unique usher formations. At the end of each portion of the program, two ushers stalk down the two center aisles, confront each other at the front of the house and then retrace their steps to the rear, meanwhile eyeing the audience and staring down curious spectators. Sumner insists that the sole purpose of the maneuver is to attend to the convenience and comfort of his audiences and denies all reports of morning drill sessions for his usher corps...