Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head. "Wo pu-tung, wo pu-tung (I do not understand, I do not understand...
Michael was not a coward. He had been decorated in the Albanian campaign and remembered what the front in northern Greece was like. Now he had better things to do. He had inherited Greece's largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical...
Attlee sat slumped down as far as he could get on a front bench, almost hidden behind a paper on which he doodled continuously. At one point, Churchill asked...
Last week, with the 29-day court investigation completed, most details of the conspiracy were out in the open. Ibañez had been the front man, Vergara the boss. The plotters had relied on three discontented groups: underpaid noncoms, impatient junior officers and out-of-power conservative politicos. The aim was to set up a military dictatorship...
...dragging their tails behind them. The place was fuzzy with ermine, mink, diamonds and dignitaries. There was a shout, "Here comes Lily Pons!" followed by a buzzing ("Yeah? Didn't know she was a blonde"). The Widow Betty Henderson, showoff of cafe society, who got tapped for the front page of all the tabs last year by stretching her 71-year-old leg on a table in the bar, arrived with a raspberry-colored hairdo...