Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little before noon, Governor Thomas E. Dewey stepped out on to the sunny front terrace of his white-columned farm house at Pawling, casting a gentleman farmer's eye on the thin clouds overhead. "I think it's going to rain," he said...
...steps, walking across the lawn, trooping down the drive. Assisted by Mrs. Warren, Frances Dewey dutifully snipped a sprig of roses from her garden ("I'm the good weeder type," she explained). The governors took off their coats, leaned on a fence, smiled for the cameras in front of the flagpole, by the barn...
...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
...Diplomatic Front...
...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...