Word: warfront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretches in hospital gave him time to analyze the gulf between homefront and warfront-something that never fails to prey on the minds of returning war correspondents. "After an absence of two years, New York looks normal," wrote Timesman Atkinson last week. "Despite many shortages in variety and volume, the food is excellent. . . . Shop windows along Fifth Avenue look brazenly luxurious, although everyone complains that 'you can't buy a thing. . . .' People seem to be living under tension, which is apparent in the boorishness and impatience of public manners. There is an overtone of desperation...
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