Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials to show the people that she, too, knew how to make soap, cure meat, rear children. The Governor's University of Arkansas trustees had ousted Scholar Fulbright from the institution's presidency in 1941 for unannounced political reasons...
That afternoon the plant opened up again as if nothing had happened. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who did a swell job restoring morale at Federal Shipbuilding, was in charge. His first step was to tell the workers that as long as the Navy was there they might not get even the 3?-an-hour nightwork bonus WLB had approved. The workers took this in good part. Michael Patrakian, the young strike leader, said: "We are all damn glad it happened. We are all sailors now. We wanted the Navy to take over [instead of an unfair management]. We know...
Limiting the graduation ceremony because of the exigencies of the national emergency, officials plan a simple program with no full dress review. The graduating S-O's, 550 strong, will wear their white summer uniforms and probably are to be presented their certificates by Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, commandant of this Naval district...
Scores of closely scrutinized Harvard specimens on the bank and other nearly swamped scullers on the river probably looked on with secret approval when a deluge of fish, seaweed, and eels rained down upon the unsheltered unfortunates at the rear of the boat as the pilot steered a true course under the bridge...
Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...