Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military crisis was not easing. On the central front all action had bogged down in snow and mud. Bad weather prevented government planes from dropping supplies to their forces trapped north of the Huai. South of the river, Nanking's wretched defenders struggled eastward to block a Communist thrust to the Yangtze between the capital and Shanghai...
Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...
Last week the editorial brought some action. While Editor Jere Moore, 46, and his wife were out to dinner, a fiery cross was burned on their front lawn. But Editor Moore, an antiaircraft colonel in the Pacific in World War II, was not to be intimidated. He came right back with a defiant editorial accusing the Ku Klux
...question of whether or not the wife should be told just what she faces, there is no evidence that anyone in front of the camera or behind it has heard of stoical, let alone Christian reasons, for telling and facing that kind of truth...
...fellows sure went to a lot of trouble," he claims. "I can't figure out why so many were so eager to beat this morning's opening." Over 100 assorted people have at one time or another tried to make it past the front door in the last few months...