Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first seven arrived by bus at Fort Dix, N.J., the Army seemed almost startled by its own Rotarian effusiveness. Cameras flashed, and a lieutenant colonel stepped forward to bid the thunderstruck youths a warm but manly welcome. Then noncoms, who seemed to have gone through some defanging process, took them gently in tow, and ordered them to write letters home...
...Fort Benning, Ga., where the new philosophy of training was being experimentally used on Regular Army recruits, one young soldier tardily said: "The noncoms were polite when they first started off, but they hadda get rough or nothin' would be done. If they didn't act that way there would not be no Army...
...Fort Defiance, Arizona; Conesville, Iowa. Otherwise, these favorite recipes span the whole range of cookery and were usually accompanied by comments like the following...
More than 30 student veterans found a carte blanche from the U.S. Treasury in their mail boxes yesterday, but the pass-key to Fort Knox turned out to be only an illusion...
Reynolds also announced that the University agents are making plans to assist student veterans at Harvard evens to find new quarters. When the Army reactivated Fort Devens for the training of draftees, it required that Harvard return the Devens buildings to the government by June...