Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less spectacularly, but just as efficiently, FBI agents recommended security precautions for thousands of U.S. factories, seized quantities of guns, charts and code books, rounded up more than 16,000 enemy aliens. So successful was the home-front campaign against saboteurs that not one case of enemy-directed sabotage was discovered throughout the war; this time there were no Black Tom explosions. Ranting Douglas Chandler, the "Paul Revere" of Radio Berlin, tried and convicted of treason, bitterly complained that his confession had been extracted by an FBI agent with "malign, hypnotic power...
...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
...When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent did not retract. After Scelba's speech, as if by signal, the Communist front benches rose and (in the words of the Communist paper L'Unità) the "senators of the Left flung themselves against the provokers to teach them a lesson...
...dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front of one shop, a bunch of pickets gleefully embraced amused gendarmes, cheerfully exchanged au revoirs and à bientôts as the gendarmes left their posts for lunch...
Suddenly, plainclothesmen burst through the front door and windows, crying "Nobody move!" They swept up cards, chips and cash as evidence, herded together 20 prisoners, including a Mexican general, a wealthy Texan and several of the brightest lights of capital society. When the courts opened next day, the 20 were charged with gambling and released on bail (possible sentence: three months to a year in jail...