Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more than the CIA, the National Security Agency prides itself on its secrecy and its security. Headquartered behind an electrified triple barbed-wire fence at Fort Meade, Md., NSA is the agency that formulates U.S. codes and tries to crack enemy codes. Behind the barbed-wire curtain last week hummed an unaccustomed turmoil of alarm: two NSA employees had disappeared...
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...cowboy-and-Indian stories,* Scholten imagines himself as the dauntless Indian chief, Winnetou. Even though German adults - both soldiers and civilians-urge the uneasy boys to desert, they blindly follow Scholten's lead. "You can do as you please," he says. "I am staying. Winnetou will hold the fort." The boys' resolution is strengthened when a passing general cannot resist spouting nonsense: he urges them to defend the bridge and announces that with a few thousand like them, Germany might still...
...Fort Worth...
Last week, in blazing sun, an army of migrants, stooping across Weld County's fertile fields, picked beans, carrots, tomatoes and onions. But their children had a different job. After breakfasting on Coca Cola, the youngsters boarded a bus for school in Fort Lupton, where they listened intently to a second-grade teacher: "Armando, get me the cup-cup-cup. Luisa, pick up the plate-plate-plate." In the fifth-grade room, a shy girl of twelve whispered in Spanish: "I want to be a teacher someday. A fifth-grade teacher." After paying 13? apiece, the youngsters downed...