Word: forte
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...stay ahead of ever more sophisticated counterfeiters, currency designs are expected to be changed every seven to 10 years. Revamped $20 bills, which won't be circulated until October, rolled off the presses last week at the mint in Fort Worth, Texas. Some details, like watermarks, are unaltered. New features are shown below. --By Cathy Booth Thomas...
DIED. CONNIE REEVES, 101, pre-eminent U.S. cowgirl; days after being thrown from her favorite horse, Dr Pepper; in San Antonio, Texas. The oldest living honoree of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, Reeves taught more than 30,000 girls how to ride, urging them to "Always saddle your own horse...
...betrayed them and the guys who broke their hearts. Phair's CD Exile in Guyville was a hit because every woman could relate to it. It is one of my top-10 favorite albums of all time. Get with it, Liz, and get your fire back! Deborah C. Partee Fort Wayne...
Rosenzweig said that in the absence of a permanent director, the steering committee had not attempted to raise money but merely to hold down the fort despite a “much smaller budget” than has been typical since CID was founded...
Though he says he "didn't do much protesting," Dean opposed the Vietnam War. So it was fortunate that officials at the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn gave him a deferment because of a minor back problem. Dean has an unfused vertebra that keeps him from running long distances and occasionally leads to discomfort. But after graduating from Yale in 1971, Dean--who didn't want to follow his friends to law school--spent a year skiing and bumming around Aspen, Colo. He hit the slopes, tried pot, washed dishes, poured concrete and drank impressive amounts...