Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was no mean tribute. Few states have done as much as Florida in demonstrating how smoothly the law can be thwarted-Miami, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach usually provide every kind of gambling during the winter season and have attracted throngs of money-heavy racketeers as residents. Still, it was interesting to discover that Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren had been elected to office on a campaign fund of no less than $462,000-$154,000 of it provided (in spite of a law forbidding political contributions by racetrack operators) by a dog-track owner...
...Indians postponed their annual spring Bear Dance for a day, poured across the reservation in battered cars, in wagons and on horseback to meet the attorney in a dilapidated school at Fort Duchesne. After they had filled the folding chairs, and squatted in impassive lines along the walls, Lawyer Wilkinson rose, took off his coat, and launched into a recital of his triumphs...
Five Methodist missionaries have been reported captured in the Korean war: the Rev. A. Kris Jensen of New Cumberland, Pa.; the Rev. Larry Zellers of Weatherford, Texas; Miss Bertha Smith of Marshall, Mo.; Miss Nell Dyer of Fort Smith, Ark.; Miss Helen Rosser of Cordele, Ga. Together with Dr. Ernest Kisch of Austria, a Jew recently baptized a Methodist and doing special work for his church in Korea, the five were cut off by North Korean troops in the city of Kaesong...
Battling a tough, well-supplied enemy in Korea, Douglas MacArthur's undernourished Far East Command needed more planes, more transport and, most of all, more ground troops. Some of what was needed was on the way last week. Items: ¶On July 9, the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington, was told to get ready for the Far East. On the same day antiaircraft units from both Fourth Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Sixth Army Headquarters in San Francisco, were also alerted for Far Eastern duty...
Inhuman Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...