Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate proceed to consider a minor bill already passed by the House. Senators drifting into the chamber almost ignored the majority leader's routine request, which was routinely granted. The bill, a piece of legislative trivia, would authorize the Army to lease an unused barracks building at Fort Crowder to neighboring Stella, Mo. (pop. 177) to replace its burned schoolhouse. Only Master Parliamentarian Johnson knew that, in this quietly innocuous fashion, the civil rights debate of 1960 had begun...
Where .the .Boys .Are, by Glendon Swarthout. The annual spring invasion of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. by beer-fueled collegians becomes, in this humorous novel, a comedy of Eros...
...over charges and countercharges of invasion of territorial rights, and the awkward fact that some college players have agreeably signed contracts with teams in both leagues. ¶ Baseball's Continental League has mixed blessings from the two major leagues, a full roster of cities (Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Toronto), and heady plans to play ball in the 1961 season. Problems: getting new players under contract (no team has any. as yet); working out territorial or minor-league draft arrangements with the existing major leagues; leasing, enlarging or building new stadiums after...
...explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce...
...first battles Grant was repeatedly taken by surprise. He was beaten at Belmont and just barely held the field at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. These near disasters taught him a second lesson: "In every battle there may come a moment when each side is fought out and ready to quit." At that moment, victory goes to the man who attacks. His determination was always to destroy the enemy, not just to defeat him, and his terms of "unconditional surrender" have often been part of U.S. strategy since...