Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began back in 1949, when General Omar Bradley was promoted from Army Chief of Staff to the chairmanship of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff, and decided to stay on in his roomy old Quarters "I" at Fort Myer, traditional home of the Army's No. I man. General Joe Collins, coming in as Bradley's successor, had to make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved...
...Texas, The Moon Is Blue, though blackballed by the Legion of Decency and lacking the Production Code approval, was outgrossing the Oscar-winning western box-office smash, High Noon, in both Fort Worth and Dallas...
...Mulvana, Kans., harassed by friends who wanted to know about his visit to Fort Sill, Okla., Aircraft Worker Les Jennings distributed a mimeographed report: "I saw (and touched) one of the new atomic guns. It is....and has a ...., which does not but....if it is so desired. It.... eighs and 13 oz., without...
...saved from committing his unwieldly, untrained and dwindling force to an assault on Boston by long-suffering gangs of soldiers, who dragged heavy cannon over the snow all the way from old Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston. When the cannon were mounted on Dorchester Heights, the British sailed away to Halifax...
Because of the feed shortage, thousands of cattle are being dumped on the market. In Fort Worth, receipts soared last week to about 7,500 a day, twice the normal run. Some of the animals brought to market were so emaciated that they fell as they were driven into the chutes. Some registered Herefords are being sold as commercial-grade beef; some cattlemen are selling their foundation herds, the animals they would normally keep to produce next year's calves...