Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people had entered the church to hear the Christmas singing. They piled coats and purses on the back pews and looked about with appreciation. A fire was snapping in the stove, a big U.S. flag was hung near the front of the church, and the piano was decorated with holiday greens...
...cotton and wheat businesses totaling $750 million. It also has more than 100 resident multimillionaires. By 1980, it might, according to Lloyd's of London, bulge with 3,000,000 people. Construction this year will total a skyscraping $500 million. Downtown property is selling for $2,000 a front inch...
...misconception - has no ideological blueprint. With Lenin dead, he ditched all such nonsense. In his dealings with the world, he has gone this way and that. In the first years of the New Deal, Stalin and his Communists denounced the New Dealers as "social fascists." Then came the United Front : everybody who was against Hitler was a Progressive. Next, the Stalin-Hitler axis, which touched off the war. The war was an Imperialist War until Russia got in; then it was a People's War. After V-E day the Western nations were no longer allies of Russia...
...least parallel to, say, the Dow theory of stockmarket behavior. Some stock traders look to the Dow theory to tell them when to buy or sell. Stalin and the other Marxists wanted a theory that would tell them when a "break" was likely in the Imperialist Front. They kept their eye glued to "the material life of society." The big thing in it, they found, is "the means of production of material goods." The means of production "determines" two things especially: the kind of social system that prevails, and "the evolution of society from one system to another...
...revolutionary process operating all by itself in each country. Lenin deduced, contrary to Marx, that the series of Communist revolutions might start in a backward country, rather than in an advanced country. Lenin, justifying the un-Marxian revolution in slowpoke Russia, called this a "break" in the world front...