Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the U. S. mint stores its valuables in the steel and concrete bastions of Fort Knox, the Irish Government has gone it one better and has turned the catacombs of Widener into its private treasure house...
Just before 6 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 1, the Air Force's weather forecast was justified; across Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Texas rolled a thunderstorm. Comfortably indoors, or away on holiday pursuits, the command did not worry about the reason for the base's existence: its mighty 6-36 intercontinental bombers were snugly tied down on the flying line, and in windblown Texas they had stayed safe in gales of 60 m.p.h. Then, without warning, the big storm...
Newfoundland also is cashing in handsomely on the $200 million building program at the U.S. bases in the province. Fort Pepperrell, near St. John's, the Harmon air base on the southwest coast, and Argentia naval base, near which Churchill and Roosevelt held their Atlantic Charter meeting in 1941, are all being expanded. Much of the money is paid out directly in wages to Newfoundland workmen. Newfoundland also benefits from the free-spending U.S. troops stationed there...
...that diary is more moving than the record of Strong's slowly changing attitude toward Lincoln. At first, he mistrusted a presidential candidate whose main claim to office seemed "the fact that he split rails when he was a boy." Later he ranted against the evacuation of Fort Sumter: "The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers." But once the war began in earnest, he was quick to sense Lincoln's rare qualities and wrote of him with affection...
Died. The Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, 74, tempestuous pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth (and, until 1951, of the Temple Baptist Church in Detroit as well); of a heart attack, at a Fundamentalist camp meeting; in Keystone Heights, Fla. In 1912, when the old First Baptist in Fort Worth burned down, Pastor Norris was indicted for arson. When he produced threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion...