Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noonan, Harvard's kicker and passer, was clipped by one man and "roll-blocked" from the front by another at the same instant, an appreciable time after the whistle had blown to stop play. He hasn't been on the field since,' he said...
Once upon a time, a little girl who lived on a small farm outside of Laramie, Wyoming owned a fuzzy dachshund named Pete. The farm was set on the very edge of the dry desert; the little girl's front lawn was crisis-crossed by a network of shallow irrigation ditches, which brought muddy water down from the hills after the heavy rains...
Pete was a good and faithful dachshund who slept a front of the fire every night, but he was far lighted. Every morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought...
...student engineer was called off to World War I as a private. At the front, he decorated his dugout with flowered wallpaper, draperies and tufted pillows. He designed himself a new pair of pants because the government-issue pants were badly cut ("I enjoyed going into action well-dressed"). After four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still...
...joins in these jiffy conferences, but he has plenty of other things to occupy his mind. It's a full time job just to figure out what's happening on the field, but since he is the man with the game plan he must derive from the jumble in front of him the overall situation and needed remedies...