Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colonel Kit Carson led his New Mexico Volunteers against the still warlike Navajos. Vastly outnumbered by the 10,000 Indians, Carson avoided open battle and waged war by burning crops and homes. The Navajos surrendered. Then their conquerors marched them 300 miles to a desolate encampment at Fort Sumner, N. Mex., where many of them died of hunger and disease. Only after they vowed never to fight again were they permitted to return to a reservation on their former lands. The weavers resumed their work, but as Berlant and Kahlenberg put it, "the pride with which a blanket was woven...
...Susquehanna River has now dried to a white dust. It settles over everything and rims the eyes red. Only 10% of downtown Wilkes-Barre, once under 5 ft. of water, has reopened for business. Piles of debris still clutter the streets. Skulls and limbs washed from the Forty Fort Cemetery are still turning up in backyards. Block after block of houses have been gutted so that you can see from the front yard through to the back. Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked...
...small (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.), feisty man who once managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli...
...other Atlanta development, including the attractive Peachtree Center, a complex with vast business spaces imaginatively broken up by restaurants, sidewalk cafes and fountains. Now a multimillionaire, Portman was picked to design San Francisco's new Embarcadero Center, Detroit's $500 million waterfront renovation, and projects in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Brussels...
...most popular of the gadgets is Identiseal, which was brought out ten months ago by Positive Identification Systems of Fort Worth. Its procedure requires a check casher to place his thumb on a stamp pad soaked in a clear, nonsticky liquid, then press it against an oval gummed label attached to the back of the check. Instantly, a clear lavender print appears. If the bank later discovers that the check is forged, the thumbprint is forwarded to Identiseal headquarters for filing, and then to the police in the city where the check was written. P.I.S. officials claim that...