Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington (A)2, New York (A) 13 Fort Worth (Tex) 12, Brooklyn (N) 18 Oakland (Pac.) 3, New York (N) 4 Chicago (N) 0, Sacramento (PCL) 3 Cleveland (A) 5, Chicago (A) 4 Los Angeles (PCL) 5, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh (N) 5, Hollywood...
...FREDERIC B. RICHARDSON Fort Benning...
...Fort Worth-born Jack Burke had lived -and played-golf ever since he was seven. His father, Jack Sr., the pro at Houston's fancy River Oaks Country Club, saw to it that he was a sound golfer in a year or two. He qualified for the Texas Junior Tournament at 13, and for the U.S. Open when...
...rope served a more somber purpose. By nightfall it had been expertly cut and knotted into two nooses that swayed from the main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...