Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickler. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, Bill Kelton tickled his wife, chased her down the streets at dawn, disturbed his neighbors' peace, got a $100 fine and three months in jail...
...task of American paratroopers who were landed south of the town. They found the Germans in command of both the north and south ends of the coveted bridge. Close by the bridge was open space-the tree-lined Hunerpark. Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns. Atop the tower were...
...closed grey van drove into the courtyard of Rome's Fort Bravetta. It stopped by a hillock of brown grass, browner dirt. In front of the hillock stood a nakedly bare pine chair...
...World War I he saw action with the Kansas 8gth Division with his friend General Somervell, won a D.S.M. and Silver Star in combat duty. When World War II came he was a colonel, was shortly made a temporary brigadier general, given command of the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Old Friend Somervell and Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, whom Lee had known on the West Coast, picked him to be Eisenhower's supply...
Dead Eye. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., the post rifle-shooting competition was won by one-eyed Sergeant Earl Tautages...