Word: forte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That Bad?" Fully 1,000 doctors packed the hall when Fort Lauderdale's Dr. Richard A. Mills (after praising the Florida climate as a palliative for heart sufferers) lambasted doctors themselves for giving a lot of their patients a needless heart flutter. Sometimes, he said, the patient misunderstands when the doctor says "Your heart is slow," "Your blood pressure is low," or "Your heart is small." If the doctor does not take the trouble to make it clear that this is good news, it may convince the patient that he is seriously...
...like a civic leader in Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...
...Fort Worth, bantam Ben Hogan, coming from behind with rounds of 73, 71, 71 and 67, won the $25,000 Colonial golf tournament...
During the trial, the Edgmons' lawyer produced a surprise witness-Richard Reams, by trade a maker of artificial limbs. In 1943, Reams, then 11, his brother Jimmie, 13, and their mongrel pup had also crawled through the fence at Fort Ord. Like the Edgmon boys, they, too, came across an unexploded shell. Unfortunately for the Reams brothers, nobody heard the explosion, and searchers didn't find them until the next day-also Easter Sunday. Jimmie Reams was dead, and Dick lost both legs, but for the Reams family there was no redress. The law under which the Edgmon...
...years, testified an Agriculture Department investigator, Fellrath had collected $100,000 from Fort Worth's Transit Grain Co. for blending about a million bushels of cheap Canadian wheat, officially graded as "unfit for human consumption," with high-grade U.S. wheat. Transit Grain exported its low-grade wheat at an estimated profit of some $500,000; the U.S. paid part of the bill by making up the difference between the domestic wheat price and that called for under the International Wheat Agreement. In addition, said the Agriculture investigator, Transit Grain paid about $15,000 to two of Fell-rath...