Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of street people grows, so does the backlash, raising disturbing questions about hostility to the poor and the use of the homeless as scapegoats. A Fort Lauderdale city commissioner suggested rat poison as a topping for local garbage, then retracted the statement and recommended the use of chlorine bleach instead. In Santa Barbara, Calif., a 35-year-old drifter was found shot to death in December, and a flyer was circulated threatening more violence to the homeless who camp there. Jerry Hill, an Episcopal priest in Dallas, says that people who camp at the outskirts of the city endure...
...people arguing about bets; 'Hold on there, I'll handle this' (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail.' Thousands of teen-agers, group singing 'Let the Sun Shine In,' ten soldiers guarding the American flag...So far we hadn't seen that special kind of face...the mark of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture...
...when the kegs still haven't been cleared from the dance room, the mountain types are usually already swilling Coors around the pool table. Scenery aficianados stop pies) either in the glassed room or the deck overlooking the river. Night draws crowds from college-town Fort Collins and Cheyenne, who drink Rocky Mountain-sized quantities of beer while dancin and hollerin and havin a wild time...
...synagogue cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary of investing in the market. Says...
That is because Eugene Roach knows his checkers. As a child, he was casually interested in the game. But when he went into the Army in 1953, in Fort Benning, Ga., one of his bunkmates was a checkers master from New York, and the champion's influence "got me to scratching them books" (he now possesses more than 250 manuals on checkers). Roach went on to make it himself as a master in tournament play and to earn the nickname "Double-Trouble" Roach, and to antagonize his wife Laura. "I don't play with him any more," she allowed...