Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fort Richardson, Alaska...
...issue was the fort of St. John the Baptist, built at Ouidah on the coast of Dahomey in 1680 as a depot for ivory, gold and rubber. It was almost destroyed in the 19th century when France conquered Dahomey, but the French finally sealed for limiting the Portuguese holdings there to the fort, a residency building and some surrounding gardens. When Dahomey won its independence from France last year, it asked Portugal to turn the tiny enclave into an embassy or consulate. Lisbon bluntly refused, and continued to administer Fort St. John as a full-fledged colony, defended...
...office as strongly as he hangs on to empire. Despite tax boosts, the government is finding it almost impossible to finance its colonial wars, and Lisbon talks grandly of African reforms to speed the independence of its colonies-once "pacification" is complete. But after the loss of unimportant Fort St. John in Dahomey last week. Portugal talked bombastically of regaining the lost fort "by all means within reach." A semiofficial Lisbon newspaper cried that in burning the fort and fleeing, "a new and glorious page of Portugal's history has just been written!" Another paper had a spiteful word...
Thanks to Russell's ceaseless questioning and streamlining-a process known to Southern Pacific hands as "Russellization" -his railroad now handles a bigger load than it did a decade ago with little more than half the work force it then had. Fort night ago, the railroad telegraphers' union indignantly complained to a presidential mediation board that Russell had shut down 149 stations in the last six years, closing and consolidating facilities that other U.S. railroads would have kept open much longer...
...individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero who captures a mountain fort with five idiots. Anyone can be molded; no one is unique: Mann ist mann. (The dangers of attempting to preserve individuality are presented by another character, Sergeant Bloody Five: to remain himself, he is forced to castrate himself...