Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Classics 112, Fort Devens Army Base...
...there were any questions about who would control the rest of the game, the visitors answered them mighty quickly. Crimson goalie Grant Blair had to stop a Marty Dallman shot with six-and-a-half minutes left in the period, but couldn't hold the fort after Mike Sadeghpour went in alone with an errant Tim Smith pass with half a minute...
Grenadians looked on with benign amusement as their "rescuers" indulged in a quaint American custom last week. Thanksgiving provided a break in the culinary monotony for U.S. troops, who dug into ham, sweet potatoes and 1,670 Ibs. of hot turkey airlifted in from Fort Bragg, N.C. The feast, which some troops washed down with pungent Algerian wine liberated from the Cubans, even had a trickle-down effect for 100 local schoolchildren: they received C rations donated by U.S. soldiers. The spirit of giving heightened the good feeling that in general has held up since the Americans arrived. Petitions with...
...record-setting heist last Easter bore striking similarities to last weekend's robbery. "It might be that there is a link," said a Scotland Yard spokesman, "or it might be that it is a copycat." The gang that raided the forbidding Security Express warehouse, known as "Fort Knox," seized a lone guard in the early hours of the morning, trussed up seven other employees as they arrived for work, and poured gasoline over one of their captives' legs. Once the security vault was open, the thieves loaded their booty into three waiting vans, painted yellow to resemble those...
...Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was organized by the Walker's director, Martin Friedman, whose catalogue, with additional essays by Poet Stephen Spender and Theater Director John Dexter, is the definitive work on Hockney as stage designer. The show will travel to Mexico City, Toronto, Chicago, Fort Worth and San Francisco, but not east of the Hudson. The irony is that most of Hockney's American theater audience, meaning the people who have seen his opera designs in performance at the Met, is concentrated in New York...