Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-school principals from School Superintendent William J. Bogan went the word: "Hold the fort and suppress, as far as you can, any insurrection." At nonstriking Morgan Park, student R. O. T. C. members stood guard...
...beer is non-intoxicating, can it be sold at Army posts in Dry states, aboard Naval vessels in Dry harbors? Last week Army Corps orders were issued for its sale at Fort Leavenworth...
...hummocks in a bog are Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America's fiercest fighters, had pushed big Bolivia's lackadaisical army back to the outlying "forts" (huts on mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
...biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa's outlying "forts," Gondra and Falson...
...wanted no peace, suggested a 30-to 60-day armistice to bring up fresh troops and supplies, the front to remain the same as at the end of hostilities. Paraguay was willing to agree to an armistice on condition both sides evacuate the bog. Observers thought peace depended on Fort Nanawa's standing or falling...