Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines...
Presently the Nazi secretaries stomped up his front steps. They clicked their heels and announced in brusque German that they had come to take possession...
Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...
...gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service on the Western Front. It was a grey and dirt-colored allegory of war which, like the Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-48), lasted so long that men forgot, in disease, starvation and insanity, what they were fighting for. The witlings who stumble to the attack...
This time clipped 1.6 seconds off the great Lloyd Hahn's indoor half-mile record of 1 :51.4 set in 1928, but Borican was dissatisfied. Said he: "I think I could have taken two seconds off my time tonight if I had . . . someone in front of me on the last...