Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party Missed. Meanwhile, Philip, on his first day back from his honeymoon, reported for duty in the Operations Section of the Admiralty, using a side door to dodge the mobs of curious women thronging the front entrance. Next day he drove his bride over to examine Clarence House, their 32-room London house, where workmen were still clearing up blitz damage. Until Clarence House and Windlesham Moor, their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants...
...congress in Wroclaw (once Breslau), Poland's Socialist Party heard a fateful summons last week. Poland's Communist Party Secretary General and Vice Premier, Wladyslaw Gomulka, told them: "Conditions make it imperative that a common front must lead to one party." What Gomulka meant was that the time had come for the Socialists to let themselves be swallowed by the smaller Communist Party...
...forward arm in arm, but we don't intend to have them lead us by the hand." And a brother Socialist commented: "Only Drobner would have dared, and managed to get away with it." The sum of the two statements was simply that Poland's "united front" government would stay united, and the Polish Socialists' no really meant...
Field Marshall Karl von Rundstedt (ret., by request), who once commanded German forces on the Western front (and began the Battle of the Bulge), got a ten-day Christmas leave from a P.W. camp in Wales to visit his ailing son back home...
...week, the two speediest dogs in Florida-Beachcomber and Dry Lake-did their noble best. It was the ninth meeting of the two rivals in a month-something like a continuing race between Armed and Assault. Beachcomber whistled out of the No. 2 hole, got to the turn in front and stayed there. His time for the 5/16 mile was 31⅔ if, only a fifth of a second slower than the track record and the best time of the current season. It was Beachcomber's fifth victory over his rival...