Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail and get married at the same time, so he chose jail instead." In April 1938 Slim, Bourguiba and all other Neo Destour party leaders were jailed for participating in a wild demonstration in which 50 Tunisians were killed. Eventually sent to Marseille's Fort de Venciat Prison, he was released by the Germans in 1943. Says he, almost proudly: "It didn't leave me with hatred for the people who imprisoned...
...Thunder of Drums, the best western so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...laboratory for determining blood types, is a scarce commodity that has been priced at $14 for 10 cc. Now a rich reservoir of the precious serum, potentially worth more than $1,000,000, has been found-all of it running in the veins of a single man in Fort Worth...
...bloodstream riches of dearborn F. Parker, 51, a food processing supervisor, are a byproduct of disease. Last spring Parker reported to Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
...Thunder of Drums. The best western so far in 1961 is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...