Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headstones and monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals...
...Manager Fred Haney, fired at the end of this year's disastrous season. An infielder who switched to catching while playing with the Phillies in 1942, Bragan moved to the Dodgers in 1943 and hung on until 1948. Since then, he has been a minor-league manager in Fort Worth and Hollywood...
Soldier. Rose to lieutenant colonel in artillery and infantry commands under the post-1944 leftist government, with time out for study at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and West Point. Bvoke with the government after the 1949 assassination of his friend and patron, anti-Communist Colonel Francisco Arana, Arbenz' main rival for the presidency...
Twice in recorded history the fault has relieved itself. In 1857, a serious earthquake centered around Fort Tejon, north of Los Angeles. The second movement, in 1906, leveled much of San Francisco. Since then, according to Richter, the fault has been relatively peaceful. Minor California earthquakes have been caused by lesser faults...
...years in the service, the past eleven months as a military policeman in Alaska, Army Corporal G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 28, long to reign in U.S. military annals as the most famed noncombatant private of all time, was routinely discharged from the Army at New Jersey's Fort Dix. The unwilling storm center of last year's Army-McCarthy blowoff, Civilian Schine planned to take up his chores (for which he drew handsome salaries throughout his Army days) as president and general manager of his father's nation-spanning chain of five hotels (e.g., Florida...