Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazoned the story that Russia had accepted a U.S. bid to talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared in headlines. People saw a melting of the frozen front of the cold war. Tom Dewey, electioneering in Oregon, hailed it as "the best news since V-J day if they [the Russians] mean...
...wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Without outside help on a lavish scale, they could not support the present war budget of $48 million a year, or spare workers from field and factory for front-line duty...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
...Turnabout, which had just started. Its name means what it says: it's two theaters in one. At one end of the hall a puppet show is staged; when it ends, the revue begins at the other. The audienca sits on slipcovered streetcar seats, reverses them between shows; front seats for the puppet show are back seats for the revue (a nearsighted person has to sit in the center, or decide which he would rather see well, Elsa or the puppets...
Sergeant Toomey saw no one running from the scene of the crime, and he suspects a getaway by car from in front of Phillips Brooks House. Clark, however, feels that students are responsible for what he explained was the second bit of thievery that had been perpetrated at his expense...