Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
When they picked up their morning papers last week, Budapesters could scarcely believe their eyes. The front-page attack on lazy Hungarian workers sounded like a product of "the slanderous propaganda machinery of Wall Street industrialists," and yet it had been signed by none other than Matyas Rakosi, the country's No. 1 Communist...
Last week, with Brooklyn trying desperately to overhaul the front-running St. Louis Cardinals, Newcombe was wheel horse of the Dodger staff. At 23, instead of pacing himself, he worked as if he were in a hurry to catch a train-motioning impatiently for the ball no matter whether he had just thrown a third strike or had one belted out of the park...
When Parliament is sitting, the white-haired Prime Minister is in his front-row seat every day, toying with his heavy horn-rimmed glasses or fingering his bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with...
Victory was not to be that easy, for a new front had opened in the south. Garrisons on the Argentine frontier went over to the insurgents. In place of the mortar shells and grenades they had dropped in their first bombing raids on the capital, the rebels now had genuine aerial bombs to dump through the cargo hatches of their U.S.-made transport planes...