Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army after the Mexican War (which he was obliged to sit out ingloriously in California), and floundered about in the gold-rush boom. In 1859 ne took the job of superintendent of Louisiana's state military academy, but threw up the post three months before the attack on Fort Sumter, and became a colonel in the Union Army...
Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape...
MacArthur supporters were daunted at the small size of the crowds that came to hear his speeches-27,000 at the 75,000-seat Cotton Bowl in Dallas, 15,000 at a high-school stadium in Fort Worth-but his critics were probably hasty-hopeful in counting empty seats as evidence that he had begun to fade away. In each city, nearly everybody turned out to see him on the parade route; the stadium crowds were small for a football game but large for an evening speech, particularly when it could be heard more comfortably on the radio or seen...
...free and he was poor). While some of his classmates ('15) helped to make military history in World War I, Bradley commanded a guard company in the copper mines at Butte, Mont. He began to think that his "career had been washed out from the start." But at Fort Benning in 1929, he had worked for a lieutenant colonel named George Marshall...
...movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...