Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Readers Wener and O'Connor. Those 15 "Fort Type" Liberty ships (built in Canada for the U.S. in the early days of the war) are indeed coal-burners...
After trekking 75 miles west to the Alaska Highway at Trutch, B.C., Farrel got the news through. Last week R.C.A.F. men flew north from Fort St. John to get Pich's body. Farrel had told them where to look for it: in a snowy tree's branches, safe from the wolves...
...other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained that business about being AWOL: "Do I look like the kinda guy who'd duck a fight? They put me to work pickin' up cigarette butts and orange peels at Fort Dix. I wish to God now I picked 'em up." Rocky promised to give all but one dollar of his earnings to charity, if they would just let him fight. Washington gave...
...commissioner: "We're sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...
Whether or not Dolph Samborski's charges can produce a two-game win streak remains to be seen. They will be the underdogs. But they were underdogs when they faced Fort Devens on Thursday. Their 20 hits attest to the fact that the locals can lace their batting shoes tight. Perhaps Crimson bats will provide power this afternoon to back up Ira Godin's pitching. Game time is 3 o'clock...