Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Ropp, there is no crisis at all. Just as after the last war, we are blaming ourselves for all sorts of things which are not our fault, he said. "No boundary has changed in front of or behind the iron curtain, and no country has come under Russian domination since 1945." What has occured, he says, is "consolidation" inside the East and West, and the reduction of "contrapuntal bitching" by directed revolutions...
Colonel Marquie had one vodka too many. Chatting with Thorez and Duclos, he said: "Really, the achievements of the French flyers on the Russian front were not exactly terrific." Thorez, who had sat out the war in Russia, agreed. So did Duclos. Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members. One of them, Lieut. Alex Laurent, who had been wounded and decorated in Russia, came bounding up to the group, and shoved Duclos aside, saying, "You're too little, I won't bother with you." Then Laurent measured burly Maurice Thorez. "Your patriotism," he said...
...last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what the Generalissimo had been meditating on: his China was breaking...
...didn't actually sport a pair of slippers and a pipe, but Violinist Zino Francescatti acted very much at home. Instead of a fireplace, however, he had the audience in Carnegie Hall in front of him last week, and the Philadelphia Orchestra behind him. When he wasn't fiddling, he lolled comfortably near the podium, gestured familiarly to Conductor Eugene Ormandy, even stage-whispered to him during the concerto. "That was pretty good;" he would say to Ormandy, or "We got it that time...
Then it went on to summarize the news of each major front...