Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
After forcing the evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga on July 5, 1777, Burgoyne gave the retreating Americans a good drubbing. But it took him three long weeks to cover 20 miles, as colonial axmen destroyed bridges and felled trees across his path...
Arriving at Fort Edward in need of provisions, Burgoyne sent a Hessian force to seize American stores at Bennington. New Hampshire and Vermont militiamen intercepted the raiders, and drove them off in disorder with a loss of 207 men. The Americans, who took 600 prisoners, lost only 30 killed and 40 wounded...
Worse news followed the survivors into Burgoyne's camp. Instead of marching to Albany, Howe had confused his orders and sailed for Philadelphia; St. Leger, turned back at Oriskany and Fort Stanwix, had abandoned his plan...
...Testament prophet. He was brought up in Christian mission schools, proved a brilliant student, and won a chance to study at Yale and the London School of Economics. In 1935 he settled down to his career as professor of native law and anthropology at the Negro college at Fort Hare, in the Cape Province. Full of his Christian-mission teachings, Matthews devoted himself to the gradual improvement of the lot of the black man. He spoke as a moderate. While others were making sweeping demands, he asked only for limited reforms, e.g., to let Negroes with high educational and property...