Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST BLOOD, THE STORY OF FORT SUMTER (373 pp.)-W. A. Swanberg-Scrib...
...designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells crashing into Fort Sumter; thus began the Civil...
...Florida and Cuba had one of the worst winter storms on record, with 70-mile gusts uprooting palm trees and drenching Havana hotels with salt spray. No sooner had the storm got out of the way than another formed over Texas and moved east. Snow fell in Fort Myers, southern Florida for the first time on record. Florida children were released from school to enjoy the unusual sight. Tourists in Miami shivered in expensive, unheated motels and wished they had stayed home...
Fred Schaus knows all about hard, high-pressure basketball; he used to play it himself. As a teenager, he was good enough to make the wartime Great Lakes Naval Training Station team, later played so well for West Virginia that the professional Fort Wayne Pistons tapped him after his junior year. Schaus turned pro, managed to get his B.S. (major: physical education) before going off to play with the Pistons for four years, three as captain. In 1954, when West Virginia Basketball Coach Robert N. ("Red") Brown moved up to athletic director, Schaus was his logical successor...
This unfamiliarity led the new Council to ask each candidate for President to present a "platform." In addition to Leland, editor of the conservative Fort-nightly, and Freehling, PBH chairman of the Combined Charities Drive, King K. Holmes '59 also ran for President...