Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already has 45,000 people at work, and this year added 1,950 more gumshoe accountants. In fact, the bureau spent $1 for every $200 it collected, including about $100 million on enforcement...
Bill O'Dwyer contemptuously snorted "crackpot." Ryan was undismayed. He chirped back: "A question a day might keep Costello away." The next morning, resplendent in pearl-grey Homburg, Ryan was back at City Hall. This time he nailed to the front door of the Hall photostats of some old (and generally discredited) grand jury charges that O'Dwyer had been grossly lax as district attorney of Brooklyn. Ryan happily held every pose the photographers yelled for, withdrew the nail, and went away...
...solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...
...over the Atlantic Pact. She has fought it tooth & nail, but only with defensive acts of desperation, e.g., international threats of Communist treason. In Rome last week, when Premier De Gasperi announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because it "betrayed the national interest," the Communists, because it served...
Through the night and the next day, sensation-seeking politicians and radio commentators whipped Cuban emotions. Newspapers front-paged pictures of the sailor perched on the statue, printed yards of invective against the "barbaric yanqui vandals." Shouted Senator Eduardo Chibas: "Neither American nor men, but beasts." The Communist daily Hoy went into an anti-American frenzy, devoted its entire front page to violent denunciations...