Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Green Beret physician told the jury that four drug-crazed intruders had slain his pregnant wife and two daughters in their Fort Bragg, N.C., duplex. But the combination of a blood-soaked pajama top and his vengeful fathher-in-law cast doubt on that story, and last year Jeffrey R. MacDonald, 36, began serving three life terms in a California prison. Now, as a result of a 2-to-l decision last week by a U.S. appeals court in Richmond, MacDonald may become a free man once again. The reason: investigative delays violated his constitutional right to a speedy...
...central Texas, and for the past month, virtually no rain has fallen there, or in most of Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and New Mexico. When the rains finally came down, so did temperatures that have been breaking records for weeks throughout the Midwest and South. In Dallas and Fort Worth two of the hardest-hit cities in the country, the temperature has hit 100° or more for 33 consecutive days...
While inflation made consumers see red, the skies remained a relentless blue. The heat wave again proved that despite the best air conditioning and modern technology, people can still fall prey to nature's whims. The victims as usual were the poor, the old and the helpless. In Fort Worth, Patricia Harris, 17, left her son LaMont, 2, in her car while she went to work as a $3.50-an-hour hospital orderly. Within three hours, the temperature in the auto had reached 130° and the boy had died. In Fulton County, Ga., police found...
Late in the afternoon, the Paratrooper is trucked with the others to barracks alongside the airfield at Fort Bragg. Here they will spend the night. But first their jumpmasters must check them in and assign them positions for the drop. It is a long, dull procedure, and the Paratrooper smiles when he thinks how much like a flock of sheep or a herd of cows they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping...