Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheehy, a 6-ft., 2-in., native of Fort Francis, Ontario, played in 31 games for the Flames last year...
...valuables in Washington might suggest, to the uninitiated, that the British can easily afford to maintain them. Some mildew and burst upholstery would lend poignancy to the subliminal cry for help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened Augustan Whigs...
This buddy system is now flying high. Of the top 25 regional lines, 19 have signed agreements with a major carrier. Most of the 48 existing partnerships have been made in the past two years. Among the combinations: Texas-based Chaparral and American united as American Eagle in Dallas-Fort Worth, and Michigan-based Simmons combined with Republic as the Republic Express in Detroit and Minneapolis...
...boarded a bus outside the library and 20 minutes later I was at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. The Verazanno Narrows Bridge and the New York skyline loomed in the distance...
Occasional cutting vignettes appear--such as the hippie painter asking tourists "to compare the peacefulness they would see on Haight Street with the violence of the beer-drinking college kids at Fort Lauderdale over the Easter holiday"--but the book largely avoids undue sentimentality...