Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of our great...
Some of the committees which Graham joined were Communist-front groups. He sponsored the 1940 and 1941 conferences of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born which is now on Attorney General Tom Clark's list of subversive organizations. In other groups he has joined, Communists have climbed aboard. Most notable of these was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, of which Graham became the first chairman in 1938. The House Committee on Un-American Activities called it "perhaps the most deviously camouflaged Communist-front organization...
...Open the Door." One day during the guerrilla attack on Karditsa, a man banged on George's front door and shouted: "George, it's me, John. Open the door, for Christ's sake!" John had been best man at George's wedding many years before. The voice sounded like his, so George opened the door slightly. Outside he saw several armed guerrillas. George fired twice at a man who tried to force his way in, slammed the door and bolted it, ran upstairs, grabbed a grenade and tossed it through the window down into the group...
...family escaped, but during a lull in the firing, while Anastasios was bolting the cellar door after them, guerrillas managed to dash up to the front door with a small charge, and blow it in. For two hours or more George and his son fought on, first at the staircase leading to the second floor, then at the landing of the attic. Finally they were forced up onto the roof...
...carol-the daffy, bell-ringing, horn-honking, falsetto-voiced Spike Jones kind. Out only six weeks, a new record by Spike Jones & his City Slickers (recorded in 1947, before the Petrillo ban) was already sixth on the hit parade. Its title: All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth...