Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week Defense Secretary Louis Johnson bade him Godspeed; the President climbed into an Air Force Constellation (his DC-6 Independence was undergoing an overhaul) and flew to Fort Bragg, N.C., to cast an old cannoneer's eye over the wonders of the new Army...
Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...
...squad experienced the same fate its big brothers were to suffer a few hours later. The locals held their own for the first quarter before Army's weight, depth, speed, and harder-hitting attack began to tell. It was the Crimson's first game; the Cadets had already beaten Fort Bragg and the Brown jayvees...
...University of California clinic, all medication failed. Her condition was diagnosed as atopic dermatitis-or inflammation of the skin due to some abnormal sensitivity. What sensitivity, the doctors did not know. Joyce Holdridge was put to bed for two weeks at Fort Miley Veterans' Hospital, and the rash vanished. Back with her husband, it returned. "By this time," she says, "we knew...
Firm Hand. In Fort Worth, investigating complaints of a disturbance, police found a 78-year-old father spanking his 48-year-old son for being drunk...