Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
...Government's case sticks, hawk-nosed Harry Bridges faces the possibility of a maximum of seven years' imprisonment, then deportation, In its previous attempts to deport Bridges, in 1939 and 1941, the Government cited Bridges' ties with Communist-front organizations, and produced witnesses who said they had heard him admit to being a Communist. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1945 ruled the evidence insufficient...
Suddenly a shotgun muzzle was thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...
...words: "I do not know how to offer sympathy to Nagasaki, which had to suffer the atom bomb. We should work with all our might to make a peaceful Japan which will be the cornerstone of world peace and culture." As the Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center...
Every clear evening a small group of devotees gathers around 6 p.m. in front of Lowell's J entry together with a Latin interpreter, who explains that these are no mere penny pitchers. They don't own chariots and they don't wear togas, but otherwise they have meticulously preserved the Roman tradition...