Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen-Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco-and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted...
...Terrible Centennial." When television came, Sadie was ready. She has already appeared on five or six telecasts. Last week she became a regular M.C.'s assistant on Du Mont's School Day?,. "With her front teeth and television," says Comedian Happy Felton...
...This," said one disgusted A.P. photographer, "is the damnedest war I ever saw. It's all front-with no back and no sides to it." Sometimes a road may be quite peaceful; the next moment it may be swept with gunfire. Even with Arab, Jewish and British press cards, it is a problem to get people on the spot to accept you. In the Arab quarter of the old city, for example, unless you have an armed escort from the Arabs' national headquarters, you might be fired on, attacked by a crowd as a Jewish spy, or arrested...
Except for its small size, the Broomstick is not very different from larger gas turbines. A compressor at the front end drives air into a ring of seven combustion chambers, where it is heated by burning kerosene and kicked out at greatly increased speed. The blast of hot gases runs two turbines. The first turns the compressor, keeping the engine running. The second, spinning at 17,000-35,000 r.p.m., drives the transmission shaft that delivers the engine's power...