Word: forte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Lauderdale...
...bloodiest battlegrounds are the urban areas. In Broward County, Carter Chairman Larry Hochendoner has set up a bank of phones, manned by six women volunteers, in his Fort Lauderdale headquarters. Last week they were in the midst of calling 20,000 registered Democrats. "This is not a conversion process," observed Hochendoner. "The name of the game is identifying and delivering votes." The phone calls went like this: "Hello, I'm calling for the President. How do you intend to vote on the 13th?" If the answer was for Kennedy, the conversation was ended. If the Democrat seemed to favor...
...than usual. He had played about a half against Columbia and Wesleyan, but coach George Ford left him in for all but the final ten minutes against the Huskies. RiCapito is a defender; and Ford had decided that the way to beat the Huskies was to hold down the fort, not attack rashly. After a shaky first few minutes the Crimson defense did just that, eventually shutting down the high-powered Connecticut forward line all together in the second half...
...Orwellian zeal. But the idea of subliminal communication has long intrigued behavioral scientists. In the mid-1950s a marketing researcher named James Vicary broke ground of sorts by inserting rapidly flashing words between the frames of a film to stimulate refreshment sales ("Hungry? Eat popcorn") in a Fort Lee, N.J., moviehouse. Pictures of a skull and the word blood were also added to two horror movies. But this practice soon fell out of favor after it was exposed in Vance Packard's alarming bestseller, The Hidden Persuaders...
...Sohan Singh Saggu, a Leeds factory worker of Asian ancestry who was forced to build a 6-ft. hardboard partition around his lathe because fellow workers were continually spitting on him. After the CRE intervened, the factory promised to halt the abuse, and Saggu took down his bleak little fort...