Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime Army was getting more like a country club all the time, and it was not worrying about the expense either. To coax reserve officers and enlisted men into weekend training camps, the Army was fixing up New York's Fort Totten to take care of the citizen soldiers' families as well. The wives and kiddies would have to pay for their own meals and transportation, of course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started...
...Feller fed the league-leading Yankees his old familiar assortment of stuff-sliders, fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller's burial, it seemed, would have to be put off for a while; the rest of the Indians felt healthier...
Nielsen, Sam Straus of 3516 Primrose Street, Fort Worth, Tex.; Amon Carter Riverside Senior High, Fort Worth...
Elliott, Birnie Joe of 502 South 14th Street, Fort Smith, Ark.; Senior High, Fort Smith. Fordham, Rollin Hugh of 2637 Myrtle Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.; Central Senior High, Kansas City, Mo. Slighton, Robert Louis of 7440 Rupert Street, Richmond Heights, Mo.; Maple-wood High, Richmond Reights. Wallace, Robert Arthur of 1182 South Jefferson Street, Springfield, Mo.; Senior High, Springfield...
Made Work. In Fort William, Ont., Charles Mathew explained why he had started a forest fire: he only wanted a job putting...