Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Wayne 81, Indianapolis...
...thundering 21-gun salute from an unseen man-o'-war rumbled in the fog off Barcelona harbor. Ancient Spanish cannon in the fort protecting the harbor bellowed their reply. Out of the mist loomed two U.S. cruisers and three destroyers. It was the U.S. Sixth Fleet's first operational visit in Franco's day, to Spain's well-sheltered Mediterranean ports. All told, 30 U.S. warships, including the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, the carrier Tarawa (27,100 tons) and three heavy cruisers, steamed into eight Spanish ports last week...
...General Zachary Taylor's victory in the seven-year Seminole War. Swamp Fighter Cooper is an Army captain who lives among friendly Indians and designs his own uniforms out of buckskin. With a handful of men, he sneaks across Lake Okeechobee and blows up a strategic Spanish fort...
...tough job is getting back, chased by enraged Seminoles and burdened by a party of hostages freed at the fort, including Mari Aldon, a new blonde starlet whose specialty seems to be breasting her way through thick undergrowth. When all seems lost, Cooper, like Hero Gable (see above), forces a decision in a hand-to-hand fight with the Seminole chief, this time with knives under water...
...Among its more important campuses: the four-year Champlain College at Plattsburg, the College of Medicine at Syracuse, the College of Medicine at New York City, the Maritime College at Fort Schuyler. *The largest: Manhattan's privately supported New York University (no kin to SUNY), with a total enrollment...