Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Worth, Texas
...reason for the Eisenhower forces' anger was quickly demonstrated. A day after the national committee's announcement, the Louisiana State Committee met in Shreveport to settle the seven cases the committee sent back to it. There to hold the Taft fort was John E. Jackson Sr., who for 23 years has bossed the Republican party in Louisiana, quietly keeping it small so he could hold control until the day when there would be some patronage to pass around.* On hand to plead the Ike cause was John Minor Wisdom, a fiery New Orleans lawyer, who has been trying...
...final event, horseback riding over a 4,000-meter course and 25 jumps, was one of Troy's specialties. McArthur, a fledgling rider, finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none of its own. Troy's horse got halfway around the course and fell in a dead faint from the exertion...
...food to Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis...
...steamboat days, when a big one like the Sprague could push as many as 60 barges loaded down with 54,000 tons of coal. He becomes nostalgic recalling that stern-wheelers in the '70s made regular trips on the highways of water between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Mont. But he knows that diesels are here to stay, and doesn't let his nostalgia get teary-eyed. Nor does he equate the ' Monongahela and the Coal Queen with romance. But when a stranger looked at the Queen and asked, "Ain't it a miracle what some fools...