Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms with the White House ever since Franklin Roosevelt reminded them, in 1938, that "all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants." Harry Truman did not help matters in 1952 by suggesting that the ladies send a committee to count the bars of bullion at Fort Knox when they had expressed suspicion that some of the gold might be missing. So it was no wonder that the D.A.R. preened itself last year when Dwight Eisenhower came to address its annual meeting, the first President to do so in 16 years. Said a satisfied delegate...
...Fort Worth...
...Return. Riding in a jeep, Badshah Nehru led the Lohars up the steep winding road to one of the fort's seven iron-spiked gateways, wide enough for two elephants to pass abreast. Here he ceremoniously applied the vermilion-tinted rice dust to the forehead of the leading Lohar, while the Indian flag was raised on a 120-ft. marble tower erected to commemorate a Rajput victory in the 15th century. "Brothers, come on. Let us enter our fort," cried Nehru...
...luxe $1,650,000 made-in-England original, Walt Disney's Treasure Island (TIME, July 24, 1950). On deck once again is the cutthroat pirate crew, the boy in the apple barrel (Kit Taylor this time), the mutiny, the mad castaway, the attack on the fort-even the same rented parrot, or its Aunt Polly. Luckily, there is also the same actor to play Long John Silver: Robert Newton...
This year's team has already shown improvement over last year's squad, which won seven and lost 15. Last year, while in the South, the varsity won from Virginia and lost to both Fort Lee and Quantico, but this season it won from Richmond and George Washington, and lost only to Quantico...