Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point where he must draw some issues sharply," says one Republican Congressman who attended the White House session. "He's got to create an impression other than that of a nice guy holding the fort between Nixon and the next President...
...Fort Worth...
...trappings of power. But his is a consistent theme: he speaks of being moved by a sense of duty rather than a sense of personal destiny. An old western movie sticks in his mind these days, Reagan says, an episode from a book by James Warner Bellah. The fort is under attack by Apaches; the colonel is dying; the young captain is standing by. The colonel-in the sort of role Reagan was always too fresh-faced to play-tells the captain this may be the only time he will face such circumstances, and to rise to them. Fate...
...Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, yesterday sponsored a reenactment of General Washington's order to Henry Knox at the Craigie-Longfellow House that Continental Army cannons be brought to Cambridge from Fort Ticonderoga in New York...
Portugal's 500-year-old colonial empire in Africa comes to an end this week. In accordance with instructions from Lisbon, the last Portuguese high commissioner in Angola, Admiral Leonel Cardoso, will lower his country's red, yellow and green flag at the 16th century stone fort of Sào Miguel in Luanda, the territory's capital. Then he plans to tuck it under his arm and-much to the annoyance of Angolans-sail off with it to Lisbon on a waiting Portuguese frigate. His unwillingness to hand over the flag with the reins of power...