Word: rears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next speaker was the State Committeewoman who was noting the price of food when applause was heard outside. The committeewoman went on. The audience turned to the rear of the hall as drums boomed in the corridor. She move closer to the microphone. Then the blaring band marched into the hall; she stepped back and stared at the wilting orchid on her shoulder...
...lost track of his subject only once: during a blinding New Jersey rainstorm, he became detached from the official caravan of long black limousines and began to trail another file of long black limousines until he discovered that he was bringing up the rear of a funeral procession...
...siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear. The toll: 20 dead, all of them Santa Fe employees; 35 injured, most of them passengers...
...those who are closest to death. If the concept is coldblooded, it is also necessary, in the military's opinion. It is based on the assumption that there will never be enough medical personnel on the nuclear battlefronts to cope with the wounded and that even in rear areas doctors and drugs will be in desperately short supply. Accordingly, all wounded, aside from those requiring only medical-aid-station treatment, will be sorted (by doctors if possible, otherwise by noncoms) into three categories...
...practice, says the Army, the priority system will operate all the way from battlefront aid stations to rear-area hospitals, with immediate-treatment cases going first and delayed-treatment following as facilities are available. The expectant cases will not, in most instances, be moved from where they lie, will get sedatives or opiates...