Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold, foggy morning. In the grey dawn, under the guns of Fort Monroe, a ghost ship slipped into the harbor at Hampton Roads, Va. There were 451 persons aboard. Of them, 429 were captives. Twenty-two were members of a German prize crew who had kept the prisoners subdued while dodging British pursuit, sailing the ship across the South Atlantic. The ship was the British-owned liner Appam, captured off the African coast by a German raider that had already sunk or captured seven vessels. And as the Appam dropped anchor in the harbor of a troubled neutral, it gave...
...criticize in the production itself. William Well man is too good a director and Gary Cooper too good an actor to start letting their audiences down at this stage of the game. They have cooked up a show in the best traditions of his adventure, complete with a fort in the desert and thousands and thousands of Arabs biting the dust. There's the character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There...
...shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
Delegates left this enormous detail to be settled in good time, embarked at once on a round of cocktail parties, formal dinners, golf-matches, swimming (behind the shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...portals, is doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe of trenches and pillboxes. Behind the fort system runs a "Little Maginot Line" constructed...