Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City, Shirley Osborne, 16, of Danville, Kans., was elected president of the Future Homemakers of America. What kind of home did Shirley want? "I want a big house with tall white pillars, a wide balcony in front and a narrow balcony all around. I want four bedrooms and I expect to have four children, two girls and two boys...
...Nationalist divisions were fed into the fight. Nationalist planes strafed and bombed the. encircling Communist lines. When repeated assaults failed, Chen Yi tried a last dodge. Loudspeakers in his trenches cried to the surrounded Fifth Army divisions: "Save yourselves needless sacrifice! Rise up and join the anti-Chiang united front...
...foundry-worker and a father, whom nobody had given much of a chance to win, made a flying start, pumped furiously with knees high for the first 60 yards, then relaxed a bit as if waiting for Patton and Dillard to catch up. He finished nearly two yards out front, equaling the world's record (10.2) set by Jesse Owens in 1936. Patton barely edged Dillard for second place...
...Arcaro brought him up on the outside, sacrificing ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved up, but he got a little tired. He didn't have anything left at the end.") Even so, Citation finished two lengths in front. His time tied stablemate Armed's track mark (1:49 1/5) for the mile and an eighth. And his winnings for the day raised his season's earnings to a one-year record...
After Angels, Hughes made five more pictures, including his two best: Scarface, with Paul Muni, and The Front Page, with Adolphe Menjou and a newcomer named Pat O'Brien. Then he turned to aviation. So far as Hollywood was concerned, he had come, seen, conquered. On one of his very rare visits back to Houston, he said to friends: "Movies are a cinch. The more you spend, the more you make...