Word: forte
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...Born Marshall Clement Sanford on May 28, 1960, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to a prosperous heart surgeon. His family spent summers in Beaufort County, South Carolina, where Sanford moved...
...Cubist paintings and Renaissance trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") art, and it would eventually enlist the help of artists like Grant Wood and Jacques Villon, both of whom served as camoufleurs during wartime. When World War II broke out, applications from painters, sculptors, even ad men flooded Fort Belvoir, Va., the military's headquarters for camouflage development. "There must be something intriguing about the word 'camouflage,' " an officer told TIME in 1942 before cautioning, "There is no room for the esthetic color expert, or for any man who can't march 20 miles a day carrying a full pack...
...talk to them.”As both a professor and an administrator, May was calm and thoughtful, yet genial in his interactions with others. “He would rarely say 10 words when he could make his point in eight,” Zelikow said.A native of Fort Worth, Texas, May ventured westward to UCLA for his undergraduate and graduate degrees before spending the Korean War working as an historian for the U.S. Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954, he arrived in Cambridge, where he would spend the rest of his professional life.As a young professor...
...cross-aisle appointments are never strictly olive branches. By tapping Republican Congressman John McHugh for Secretary of the U.S. Army, Obama has snatched away a stalwart member of the GOP's shrinking congressional delegation in New York state. McHugh, whose sprawling upstate district includes the Army base at Fort Drum, is the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and a highly regarded military advocate. "John is a distinguished public servant who will help keep us safe and keep our sacred trust with our soldiers," Obama said. While McHugh's blood-red district is generally considered safe terrain...
...Elected as the Representative for New York's 23rd District in 1992. The district is New York's largest by area and includes the Fort Drum Army base...