Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leahy. "You are further advised that court-martial charges have been preferred against you ..." When the captain finished reading the charges, three husky MPs stepped up to the young men and marched them off to a weapons carrier. Minutes later, the forbidding gates of the prison compound at Fort Baker clanked shut behind them...
...Major John Eisenhower, 32, looking startlingly like his father's son, brought out his wife Barbara and their brood-D. (for Dwight) David, 7, Barbara Anne, 6, and Susan, 3 -to meet the press. At his new post at Virginia's Fort Belvoir, Infantry Instructor Eisenhower showed an infantryman's skill in fielding grenadelike questions right back at their tossers. Asked slyly if he expected his Fort Belvoir assignment (probable term: three years) to last longer than Ike's stay in the White House, Major John flashed an Ikelike grin, replied: "Dad doesn't talk...
...heroes of the art world, rightly, are creative artists; yet occasionally a standard-bearer of a different sort emerges as a creator in his own right. Such a man is James J. Rorimer, director of The Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's medieval branch in Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park. Rorimer began constructing The Cloisters in 1934, has since made it the world's best museum of medieval art and a major tourist attraction. This week Manhattan was abuzz with rumors that Rorimer was in line for a new and even more demanding assignment: filling the large chair...
...spiro, spero-while I breathe, I hope-is young John Henry Johnson's motto. What he hopes for, he tells his astonished Congressman Jack Fairweather, is some of the gold in Fort Knox. Impossible, cluck-clucks Fairweather. and just what would he do with it if he got it. The answer convinces the congressman that he has been catering to the screwball vote: "I've developed a process for changing gold into dirt...
...Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...