Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ruby hanging around headquarters on Saturday, Nov. 23, as well. Then on Sunday morning, Jack Ruby parked his car in a downtown parking lot, walked to a Western Union office to send a $25 money order to Stripper Little Lynn, a faithful former employee who was in straits in Fort Worth. A Western Union employee testified that he stamped Ruby's receipt with his electric clocker at 11:17 a.m. Ruby seemed neither upset nor in a hurry, exchanged pleasantries and departed. According to police measurements, Ruby walked 339 ft. 6 in. down the street to the underground garage...
...also concerned that the Corps might not always be "helping the people to help themselves." Theoretically, he explained, the volunteers in Nigeria, most of whom are teaching in secondary schools, are "only holding the fort until Nigeria develops enough teachers herself...
...have coupled the Fort McHenry flag with such Smithsonian "mildew" as General Sheridan's horse or a human-finger necklace. You fail to mention the fact that the most prominent single exhibit in the new Museum of History and Technology is the Fort McHenry flag which stimulated Francis S. Key to the composition of what became the national anthem...
...country's new strongman, goateed General Nguyen Khanh, took the occasion to make a second grass-roots tour, this one to mountainous central Viet Nam. At a village of montagnard tribesmen, Khanh let his feet be ceremonially washed in rice wine and buffalo blood. At a bleak infantry fort guarding the Laotian frontier, Khanh trotted out three sparsely clad Saigon cabaret cuties to put on a show, then announced an even greater morale booster-a 20% pay raise for privates and corporals...
...Phil Sheridan's horse, Winchester, was stuffed and put on show along with an array of First Lady manikins decked out in their own clothes, and the U.S. flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes that Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light over Fort McHenry...