Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colloquial American English during the past ten years, when he attended U.S. military schools. After graduating in 1968 from Britain's Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, he took advanced fighter training at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, S.C., and earned a parachutist's badge at Fort Benning, Ga. Bandar became an instructor pilot at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, and finally went on to Maxwell. Along the way he earned a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins University...
Operation Fallen Patriot comes on the heels of project REPORGER--Return Forces to Germany. Under that operation, troops from NATO countries for the past three weeks pretended to fight WARSAW troops in Germany, Captain DeCesare, Chief of Plans and Training at Fort Devens, Mass, said yesterday...
...blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...opening production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare, Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem...
...Democratic Party, and the excitement generated by the showing of Blacks in major mayoral races make now the best time for this strategy. Reagan's policies have caused a new feeling of class consciousness among the working (and not working) classes: I overheard one Black teenager in a Fort Worth Dairy Queen ask another how it was going. The other replied, "Reaganomics...