Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile pipemen fought into the flaming lobby with battering streams of water. They edged into the heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
...phrases. After referring to "delirium Trumans" and observing that "to err is Truman" (both times neglecting to credit the phrases to Gossipist Walter Winchell, who shortly set the record straight), she widened her traverse and characterized the Democratic Party: "a freak of nature . . . with a Communist front, a reactionary rear, and a know-nothing middle...
...nervous puppeteer, Henry J. Kaiser last week jerked one promise off the automotive stage, hastily substituted another. The long-ballyhooed front-wheel-drive Kaiser, promised to car-hungry America this summer, was sidetracked. The cause: "tooling" troubles. In its place, Kaiser last week offered the Kaiser Special, a conventional rear-wheel-drive car, in appearance similar to the Frazer...
...points, 112 points higher than Dunster House, in the runner-up position. In third place in the term standings was Winthrop House with 425 points, a scant 5 points more than Leverett in fourth place. Lowell was next with 327 points while Adams and Dudley brought up the rear with...
Lieut. Robert L. Eagan, Chicago: "I witnessed on several occasions combat between the Chetniks and the Germans, while the Chetniks would be attacked by Tito's Partisans from the rear...