Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route, he found, was the lifeline of Chinese Armies. He passed numberless coolies, struggling and crawling with animal patience through the mountain gaps, overloaded with blankets, clothes, grenades, machine guns, rifles, cartridges, medical supplies, telephone wire; braying mules, struggling under dismantled bits of artillery; sick soldiers straggling from the front; stretchers jogged over the painful ways; beggars keening by the pathside; and over all heat, rain, flies, cursing...
...bathroom, police found ten bloody fingerprints of a man's hand; in the front room, bloody handprints on a nightshirt hung on the doorknob. In the garage, near 18 heavy packing cases, was a pile of 100 used light bulbs. Prize clue, the police considered, was the size-11 bedroom slippers. They set a policewoman translator at the Doctor's desk, soon had a list of eight suspects. At week's end they were hunting a heavily muscled young third-rate prize fighter called "Swede," had traced him to a Florida-bound bus. All the paraphernalia...
...Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...
...political front Sweden showed signs of toughening her stand against both Germany and Russia. At week's end Foreign Minister Sandier, whose head has been demanded by both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else...
...Then," said the General, "I shall commit hara-kiri in your front court...