Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to feel protected knowing that it takes twelve hours for the Army National Guard to reach Fort Drum from Staten Island? Once there, the men spend a few days playing at their war games...
...fort will have to be a labor of tourism as well as historical piety, of course. Since the Bicentennial, Americans have become great refurbishers of the past, though often in a merely Disney way. They want the past to speak to them; but, especially in the '60s and '70s, it occurred to many to wonder whether the past was telling them the truth. John Wayne repeatedly re-enacted one version of the Fort Concho mythology, but the claims of other perspectives have been rising. Wayne Daniel, 38, Fort Concho's librarian and archivist, speaks wistfully about including...
...many layered and full of irony. If every great fortune, as Balzac said, is founded on a crime, a lot of good American towns, especially in the West, were built on nothing more dignified-or sinister, for that matter-than whisky and whorehouses. San Angelo, which now envelops the fort, got its start that way. Its economy in the first days grew robust upon soldiers' payday recreations and the gamy appetites of buffalo hunters. Susan Miles, 89, daughter of one of the earlier settlers, manages to sound both scandalized and amused about the town's atmosphere even after...
...Angelo (population about 75,000) has had to wait some years to forget a certain distaste for its fort and even its origins. But like most Texans, San Angeloans have an almost tactile relationship with the past-their own history at least. West Texans have not vanished into the anonymity of cities. When Joe Mertz and Willard Johnson, two of the biggest ranchers in San Angelo, get together for a great barbecue or a more elegant dinner at, say, the River Club, someone will probably tell an outsider how Johnson's grandfather spoke so eloquently about West Texas that...
...shortages now that Carter has declared it is U.S. policy to protect the Persian Gulf from Soviet meddling. There is a possibly perilous gap between intention and capability about which Brown was questioned during his first stop of the day, at the Army's Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss in El Paso...