Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they also found they were not quite in that land nor of it. (Their new home was declared an "Emergency Refugee Shelter" so its guests would not be subject to immigration laws.) Quartered in old Fort Ontario behind a fence of restrictions, they could get only six-hour passes. They could not travel farther than 20 miles. They had to be in at night. Their barracks apartments, partitioned with wallboard, were better than a concentration camp, but had little privacy. They shared bathrooms and the mess hall...
Barriers Burned. Some of the refugees were readily assimilated. The Oswego High School graduated six of the refugees in June, and Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into...
Thus they avoided idleness, but by last week they could no longer escape nervousness. A hundred questions plagued them: would they be sent back, and where? What would be the citizenship of the 13 children born at the Fort? What was the chance of getting to Canada, then back into the U.S. with a visa? What of the ones with sons in the American Army...
...mess sergeants at Fort McPherson, to whom hearty appetites are an old story, were openly impressed. The medium-sized (140-lb., 5 -ft. 7-in.) private kept bringing his tray back & back. When he had finished breakfast he had finished 60 eggs and 76 hot cakes. At that rate, he was getting some 30,000 calories a day (a hearty male diet...
...time the press discovered him last week, Pfc. Chester J. ("The Stomach") Salvatori, a horn-tooter in an itinerant Army band, had landed in the Fort McPherson Post Hospital; he had been under observation there for a month. Hospital Commandant Colonel Burgh S. Burnett had an old-fashioned diagnosis: there was nothing abnormal about Salvatori's metabolism - it was really only his ego that needed nourishment. "He is an exhibitionist who puts on this eating show for the benefit of fellow soldiers." The Army had him eat alone, restricted his caloric intake...