Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the President learned that-although war had not been declared-Bolivian soldiers had captured Paraguayan Fort Boqueron, he cried from a balcony of the presidential palace, "in taking the fort our soldiers gave a splendid example of Bolivian patriotism. Viva the army; viva the commander of our forces in the Chaco; viva Bolivia...
Soon official statements were made by the respective foreign offices in such terms that undoubtedly one or the other set of diplomats was lying. The Bolivians said that their troops were sound asleep at six a. m. in Fort Vanguardia on unquestionably Bolivian territory when they were stealthily attacked by Paraguayan soldiers. The diplomats of Paraguay said that their troops had discovered a Bolivian fort on unquestionably Paraguayan territory, had requested the Bolivian garrison to withdraw and had been fired upon for their pains. At approximately the same hour last week both governments claimed that their victorious forces held...
...face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what had happened at remote Fort Vanguardia. The significance of such diplomatic procedure-senseless and mischievous, though perfectly "correct" and "usual"-is of greater importance to the world than any additional blood which may be spilled between 2,155,000 Bolivians and 853,000 Paraguayans-scarcely as numerous as the denizens of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...
...Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including an administration of their...
...only of the 18 accomplished a "clean performance." This was Major Harry D. Chamberlain who is the son of an Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching...