Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wood joins two members of last year's Eastern Champion team, center Billy Clearly and defensemasn Doug Manchester, as potential Olympic team members. The Army last week also announced special leaves for the two from their Fort Knoxs, Ky., base...
Empathy. In Fort Worth, a three-day jail term for contempt was added to Ferrell Conlin's lengthy record of arrests on drunk charges when, as an excited spectator at a murder trial, he leapt to his feet and shouted: "Give him 15, judge, 15 years...
...Light Touch. In El Paso, officials at Fort Bliss formally dedicated a new $310,000 Army mess hall by using a meat cleaver to cut a 6-ft. string of hot dogs stretched in front of the entrance...
...Fort Worth, Texas
...boatmen and soldiers in leather collars with their hair in pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered the unexplored land, included fierce meetings with "white bears" (grizzlies), narrow escapes...