Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, accompanied by Madame Chiang and with an air escort of fighters, the Gimo flew for a look at the Honan front. Over embattled Kaifeng, it was said, he talked by radio phone to the defenders...
Chiang flew on to Sian, summoned an emergency conference of his top military men. The entire Central China front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...
Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
Easy Beat. Pennsylvania's crew, hitting up an energetic 36, flashed out in front. Cornell was right behind. Ulbrickson's long-armed, long-legged men were using a lot less energy and staying very close. At the mile mark, still doing a smooth 30, Washington was in the lead. Navy's beef-trust crew was up to 34 and not gaining an inch. After two miles, the Huskies stepped up their beat a little and pulled away to win easily by 2½ lengths. California, an old rival, was second...
...triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them, and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classes." During World War I, he trundled off to try his hand at battle scenes ("I suppose there is no fighting on Sundays," he remarked to a general at the front). He tried landscapes, character sketches ("a lot of mugs in ... charcoal") and watercolors which he scornfully labeled "Triple Bosh," "Blokes," "Idiots of the Mountains," "Intertwingles." But they were never enough to free...