Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airliner, the 463-mile flight from Fort Worth to Kansas City is a matter of two hours, but for the B-36 bomber that waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some 30 hours and its course would take it over 7,000 miles. Shortly after noon, the long, blimp-nosed craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians...
Take René Dupuis, the 25-year-old engineer who drove me from Langson to the fort of Dongdang, on Viet Nam's northeast frontier. "I like it out here," said Dupuis. "It's adventure, I feel I'm useful, and I like the Vietnamese." His rifle was propped against the seat beside him. Every mile along the road a French fortress of brick and bamboo dominated the countryside. Between them we passed patrols of bearded men, four or five in a group, wearing jungle-green uniforms and broad-brimmed, shapeless felt hats, snaking in single file...
...Chicago, 23-year-old Polly Riley of Fort Worth capped an eight-year effort to win the Women's Western Amateur Golf Championship by doing just that, 4 and 3, over 24-year-old Mae Murray of Rutland...
...Turner, a Fort William policeman, was patrolling his beat on the Lake Superior waterfront when the propeller of a passing ship stunned a fish and knocked it to the surface. A seagull swooped down, grabbed the fish, then dropped it on the dockside at Turner's feet. It was a 2½-lb. pickerel...
Legend v. Fact. In Fort Worth, Municipal Health Officer Dr. Wilbur V. Bradshaw examined the medical records of the city's 343 policemen, reported that only two of them had flat feet...