Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy also paid his personal respects to the men of the Army's 1st Armored ("Old Ironsides") Division at Fort Stewart, Ga. During the U.S. buildup toward a possible invasion of Cuba, the division had been secretly moved 1,300 miles from Fort Hood, Texas. The operation took two weeks, with 40 trains carrying equipment and some men, while 13,000 other soldiers were airlifted...
Spat Upon. Long before the Civil War, Phenix City became famed as a vice town, populated mostly by crooked gamblers and diseased whores. Gunfire was all too common. In later years, slot machines lined the walls of barbershops and service stations, even sprouted on the sidewalks. Servicemen from nearby Fort Benning kept the brothels operating full tilt. Such was Phenix City's infamy that members of its high school football team were spat upon when they played out of town...
General Dynamics cried that if it lost out on the TFX, it would have to lay off 5,000 workers at its sprawling Fort Worth plant, where B58 bomber production was phased out one month ago. Boeing claimed that it might have to close its Wichita plant, where B-52 production also was halted last month. Politicians from both areas naturally took a lively interest in the matter...
Hudepohl was widely feared for his crunching defensive play at right end. The 6 ft., 3 in., 200 pound senior from Fort Thomas, Ky. consistently turned back end sweeps and often broke through to smother would-be passers...
...even the smaller cities are immune. Johet, Ill., for example, has a folk cave appropriately called The Know Where Fort Wayne, Ind., has a place called The fourth Shadow where people squat on the Hoor and sip espresso by candlelight over doors that have been made into tables Strings are jumping at The Jolly Coachman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Incredibly Omaha, just across the river from Council Bluffs, has two places. The Third Man and The Crooked Ear where queues sometimes run to a hundred head, and the varied clientele-as in all cities-not only have beards, berets...