Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist General Chen Yi's agile columns (about 30,000 men) slipped over the muddy stream, struck at the Nationalist rear. At points less than 60 miles from Nanking the raiders tore up several sections of the government's single-track rail line to the front. Temporarily, at least, all land communications were cut between the capital and its last effective defense force...
Just before last week's Communist stab through the Nationalist Huai River defense line (see above), TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin made a visit to the Huai front. His report...
...front lay about ten miles north of Pengpu. Next morning in a curious military vehicle-an old rail coach converted by iron plates into an "armored car"-we clanked across the quarter-mile steel bridge spanning the Huai. The river's northern shore was buttressed at the bridgehead with zigzag trenches and barricades of sharp wooden stakes. It had been cleared of all sampans lest the Communists seize them for a crossing...
...Lost." Kolachi village, on the way, no longer smoked but the smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields...
...psychological front, somebody even wanted to shoot Santa Claus. St. Nick, said Psychiatrist Ludolf N. Bollmeier, of Little Rock, Ark., was a potential source of juvenile delinquency; little white lies about Santa might lead to "serious trouble later on." His advice to old-fashioned parents: "If you must tell children about Santa Claus, tell them it's just make-believe and not a reality...