Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist advance swept forward a dozen miles on a 20-mile front, reached the strategic city of Gandesa, taken by the Rightists last spring after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. After a terrific struggle last week, the Leftists were thrown back from the gates of Gandesa. But they claimed 5,000 Rightist prisoners, and relieved Rightist pressure in the south...
...Manhattan, almost every paper sold thousands of extra copies. Throughout the U. S., Warde hit the front page the moment his body hit the sidewalk. Editorial writers reacted instantly. The comforting New York Times asked: "Is life worth living?" answered: "Of course life is worth living," mentioned a few of the things worth living for: "... a majestic sunset or moonrise ... an understanding look in another person's eyes. . . ." The crusading New York Post noted the extensive efforts to save the suicide, asked: "If so much could be mobilized for one man, how much could be accomplished by a fully...
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...last week the British cruiser Orion was anchored in Kingston Harbor; special police and militia were stationed at every street corner with riot guns and tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four...
...Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...