Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jean Luchaire, 45, arch-collaborating French journalist who headed the Nazi-controlled Paris press, father of pretty, pouting, collaborating Cinemactress Corinne Luchaire*; before a firing squad, for treason; at Fort de Chatillon, Paris...
Last week, as dogs returned from overseas and became available as replacements, the brass hats finally agreed to demobilize Mickey, a German shepherd, from the K-9 Corps. But he has been trained all this time to obey only one person. This week, at Fort Royal, Va., Mickey was being "de-agitated" and reoriented so that the Riedwigs could safely have him home again...
Before the expedition reached Edmonton some time next May, the men of Musk-Ox would have traveled 800 airline miles (1,150 route miles) north to Cambridge Bay, some 600 more southwest to Fort Norman on the mighty Mackenzie River, and 900 airline miles south in the Mackenzie Valley. It would be comparable to a trip from Tallahassee to Chicago to central Nebraska to Corpus Christi. The region has been visited so infrequently by man that close-up maps of it are liberally sprinkled with such vague comments as "flat country" and "rolling plains with numerous lakes...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...