Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans, twelve British, three Turks, 50 South Koreans. Some of the Americans exchanged on the first day wondered why they had been picked, when others suffering worse injuries or ailments had been left behind. They seemed unable to realize that they were free. When Pfc. David W. Ludlum of Fort Wayne, Ind. was asked what he looked forward to, he answered: "I haven't been doing much thinking lately. I did all my dreaming a long time...
...Fort Lauderdale, a quiet resort town (summer pop. 43,000; winter pop. 115,000), had been drawing small crowds of collegians since 1940. This year 10,000 young men & women leaped into automobiles, scorched the highways south, and spilled into Fort Lauderdale-varsity Visigoths entering a stucco Rome...
Balboa's harried cops arrested 36 minors for possession of liquor, 122 for lesser offenses, and fired 150 others back home to their parents for safekeeping. Before the week ended, many an irate citizen in both Balboa and Fort Lauderdale was crying that all the tourist money in the world didn't compensate for the uproar...
...grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...
Lonely Grave. After the Army pulled out of Fort Yates in 1903, Sitting Bull's grave lay untended under the scraggly grass of the deserted parade ground. Then, last fall, a 78-year-old Sioux patriarch named Clarence Grey Eagle went on the warpath. He had witnessed the great chief's death when he was a boy of 16; when he heard that the grave was to be covered with water from the new Oahe Dam, he hurried indignantly to Mobridge (pop. 3,800), S.Dak. Would the Chamber of Commerce build a memorial, he asked, if he moved...