Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian officials in Saigon. The son of a railroad hand, he was born in Springfield, Mass. At West Point, where he was known as the "fightin'est man" on the football squad, he claims that his only distinction was an aversion to discipline. After cavalry training at Fort Bliss, Texas, Abrams joined the 4th Armored Division at its formation in 1941, stayed with it through...
...differed little between flight-stress days and relaxed, off-duty days. They tallied closely with what Dr. Bourne deduced from flying and talking with the men on dangerous missions. On the average, they showed less reaction to stress than do draftees undergoing basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. When the stress and danger were real, the men suppressed their anxiety and related reactions. One man, an unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed...
...into the Capitol rotunda on Nov. 24 was astonished at its weight and nearly dropped it. That night they were terrified at the thought of the next day's funeral procession, when they would have to carry it down again. The officer in charge ordered a coffin from Fort Myer, had it filled with sandbags, and at midnight took his team to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. There, he marched them up and down the darkened steps. Later, the officer and a sentry sat on the lid to increase the weight, while the team made the trip again...
...American good guy! that's me, all right," Gerald M. Rosberg '68 conceded in Fort Lauderdale yesterday as he received the annual All-American College Boy award...
...Sunday's performance did have a military song in it--a very loud one called "Fort Riley"--"dedicated to the men of the Ninth Infantry who are fighting for us right now in Vietnam." While the song was being sung in Sanders about ten people walked out, and there was heckling and hissing from the audience. "Fort Riley" ends "We're gonna show aggressors everywhere that Uncle Samjaint bluffing." The song was nearly exactly the same as "Follow Me," though Heikki explained later that in "Fort Riley" they were not telling people to follow them into war, just sort...