Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this revamped system. Says William Howard, Piedmont's president: "We looked for those routes that were underserved, where there was a need for flights." New territory opened up as the big trunk airlines cut small-volume flights to such Midwestern cities as Grand Rapids, Flint, Toledo and Fort Wayne. Last July Piedmont inaugurated its second hub at Dayton. Says Howard: "Those service-devastated Midwestern cities form the heart of our new service...
...Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981): Some good moments, I guess...
...pitiful remnants of the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the views were still important: the views of Jackson's Hole and the Tetons, or of the old Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site, for holiday and to bury pieces of bone and harness and indulge in the traditional recreation of soldiers visiting an old battlefield: to re-fight the engagement...
...Civic Center soliloquy-"beauty is"-Leonard made sure to mention that besides Juanita, whom he married in 1980, little Ray and the rest of his family and friends, beauty is also "Fort Knox," "selling 7-Up" and "Sugar Ray Leonard...
...minor celebrity after the New York Times published an account of his dealings with Wilson and Terpil. He appeared on television news programs and talked to publishers about writing a book. Last fall in Colorado, at the trial of a Wilson associate for attempted murder, Mulcahy became friends with Fort Collins Policeman Ray Martinez...