Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impatient Georgie Patton, it was good to be on the move again. Nothing much had happened on his front since his 5th Division troops were thrown out of the labyrinths of Fort Driant (TIME...
Bloomer Girl. Handsome, tuneful Civil War musical, more concerned with fem inists than Fort Sumter (TIME...
...night last August a mob of Negro stevedore soldiers at Fort Lawton, Wash., stormed into a barracks occupied by paroled Italian prisoners of war. The Negroes, brooding over special privileges shown the POWs, were armed with "knives, clubs, trench shovels, axes, stones." After MPs had quelled the brawl, Italian Guglielmo Olivotto was found in a gully near by, hanged by the neck and dead...
...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
After her farmer-husband died, Mrs. Lessie Mills, of Fort Meade, Fla., took to babying the youngest of her five children. As a result, Jimmy Mills got to be known as "mama's pet," grew up so timid that he was afraid to go to bed at night unless his mother were close at hand...