Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LORSCHEIDER Fort Lauderdale...
...husky six-footer, he was inducted, but had been in uniform only a week when he landed in Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, Ky. Captain Robert L. Rainey and Lieut. Colonel David L. Deutsch found nothing wrong with him except dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...
...prefabricated parts for new schools and hospitals; and in the Yukon and along the Mackenzie River, the biggest prospecting rush since '98 was in full swing, this time with oil as the prize. So many oil-prospecting crews were buzzing about in their helicopters that one oldtimer at Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) grouched...
...Geographers define the Arctic as the land north of the tree line-roughly the climatic boundary where the July temperature averages no more than 50°. But the January mean in Whitehorse is 8° warmer than Winnipeg's, 750 miles to the south; Fort Smith's all-time high of 103° is 1° higher than New Orleans'. The annual snowfall at Resolute (latitude 75° N.) is less than Boston's. The summers are brief but bright, and on the North's few tilled acres, the warming sun, shining 20 hours...
...National Foundation was in a flurry of activity grimly reminiscent of pre-vaccine days. It flew eleven iron lungs to Des Moines, and other respiratory equipment to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Ocleans, Nashville, Tenn., and Chapel Hill, N.C. The foundation also flew six nurses and a physical therapist to Des Moines, three nurses to New Orleans...