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Word: forte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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JULY-Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Army, the tough, patient professionals who train recruits are not generally given to talkativeness, and Master . Sergeant Hubert Lee, 36, was quieter than most. After six months, even his fellow instructors at Fort Sill, Okla. knew only that he came from Mississippi, was a 13-year man, had fought in Europe and Korea. He wore the Silver Star for gallantry. But when he was asked how he got it, Lee always begged off. "I'm not very good about telling combat stories," he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Story of Combat | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Fort Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...LIEUT.) GEORGE A. CHANDLER 1950 Princeton football captain Fort Sill, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Last week the cops had grabbed ten of Garza's contacts in Wichita Falls, four in Fort Worth, four in Dallas, and one in Waco. Garza, resting up from his endeavors, looks forward to the day when he will be too old or too well-known to be a zoot-suited undercover agent in high schools. He wants to be a Texas Ranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Teacher's Nightmare | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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