Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across the bay from Rio. His jailers simply ignored the order, as well as a brusque telegram from the supreme court president directing the generals to "accept the decision just as it was communicated...
...pressure system was building up in eastern Kansas, creating the conditions that breed tornadoes. Out went the first of a series of warnings. But to thousands of citizens living in "Tornado Alley," a vast band of land extending about 400 miles on each side of a line from Fort Worth to Detroit, the warnings were old stuff, and therefore to be ignored...
...student University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon studies northern lights and the ionosphere by launching its own rockets at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The university has grown beyond its 2,600-acre campus, with Gothic greystone buildings, to acquire a 1,300-acre branch in Regina. The new school has a campus designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki; among its teachers is a visiting professor from Moscow University...
Cornell has played only three regular-season games this year; they split a doubleheader with Rochester and defeated East Stroudsburg. The Big Red has an extensive exhibition series in North Carolina during the first week of April, winning six of ten games against Camp Lejune, Fort Bragg, and North Carolina State...
...century ago, Russia and the U.S. were next-door neighbors. Fort Ross, the southernmost outpost of Russia's vast American colony, lay only 100 miles up the California coast from San Francisco. American ships regularly anchored at New Archangel (now Sitka), a thriving capital that boasted two scientific institutes, a public library, a college, and such civilized amusements as the theater, whist parties and formal balls. Then in 1867, Russia ceded its American possession to the U.S. for $7,200,000-a price that comes to about $12 per square mile. It was the crowning irony...