Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macaulay and a host of lesser chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
Should a newsman refuse to identify confidential sources of his information about a crime? Long tradition says he should. But legally-except in twelve states that have laws reinforcing the tradition-he has no more right than any other citizen to withhold information. In Fort Worth last week, William Prescott Allen, 60, publisher of the Laredo, Texas Times (circ. 15,283), faced the choice of revealing sources or going to jail...
...will not solve the problem, as experience with publicity here shows. The facts about Harvard scholarships and aid are available, but capable secondary school counsellors are needed, to put the facts before the student. All too many students pick unwisely or not at all, and finish their education at Fort Sill. The only existing guide is the College Handbook, containing much purple prose but little information. The student wants to know what the college is really like, not what the college wishes to do to society and humanity...
...once, in 1953, Bill broke through. In the midst of a box-office slump, three Holden pictures-Stalag 17, The Moon Is Blue, Escape from Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself...
Thank God for your two statements: "The path of interposition leads in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...