Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freed from Communist rule after four years, crossed themselves reverently and gave thanks to To Thavma Tis Panagheias (the Miracle of the Virgin), which they thanked for their liberation. U.S. officers predicted that summer's end would see Greece free of all organized guerrilla warfare. On the Vitsi front, Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, said: "This is the beginning...
After that the pace picked up a little, but not until they were one-quarter mile from home did they start to run in earnest. Richards brought Ridge Wood to the wire in front by three lengths. In spite of spectators' boos and an inquiry by track stewards (who found that no rule had been infringed) Ridge Wood's owner picked up $4,648 in prize money. Time: 5:13 4/5. World's record for the distance...
...last week, Secretary of State Dean Acheson strode down the aisle of the State Department auditorium and took a seat at his little mahogany table in front of the assembled newsmen. At his right, as is customary at Acheson's weekly press conferences, sat big, beefy State Department Press Officer Lincoln White. The Secretary wanted to get something off his chest-and what he had to say was almost as surprising to the press corps as a new shift in U.S. foreign policy. He wanted to apologize for having been rude...
Carter added some blunt observations of his own: "There is actually more [racial and religious hatred] in the North than in the South . .. We never had a Bund or a Christian Front in the South ... I am ashamed of the discrimination which the Negro suffers in the South . . . But [we don't] pretend that it doesn't exist. That pretense is assiduously practiced in the North . . . The North has almost a monopoly on neurotics . . . dipsomaniacs, abnormal sex delinquents, divorced couples, Communists, crime-comics readers, [and] gin-rummy addicts...
Said Kirkpatrick: "We take the stand that no one should be fired for political beliefs-but membership in the Communist Party or in a number of Communist fronts is entirely different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner...