Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play in a seniors v. alumni game in which no score was kept and the admission was all of 250. Not to be outdone, the A.A.U. once strongly chastised a Fort Lauderdale swimmer named Jamie Nelson for saying that a certain breakfast cereal had helped her recover from a pulled muscle. The A.A.U. apparently figured that Jamie could afford the three-year suspension since she was only five at the time. "The athlete is so controlled by artificial restrictions," says...
After the Civil War, the U.S. government sent a treaty commission to Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory, now Wyoming. The commission was headed by Newton Edmunds, governor of the Territory, well-known for his ability to swindle the Indians...
Edmunds and the other members of the commission tried to persuade the Indians to allow the Federal government to build roads across the Indian country. The government was particularly interested in fortifying the Bozeman Trail, which ran along the Powder River and was the only route from Fort Laramie to Montana...
...treaty commission never intended to accept a compromise with the Indians, and only Red Cloud's resistance forced the government to abandon its plans for the Powder River country. The numerous peace commissions-three in two years-that arrived at Fort Laramie always sought Red Cloud's signature, and the great Sioux leader was willing to meet with the commissions...
Carter Camp, one of the top AIM leaders, recalled the takeover with a smile. "I led three cars past 'Fort Wilson' [the fortified BIA building]," Camp, a tall, big-boned Oklahoma Cherokee, said. "We arrived about 45 minutes before the caravan. We took a pickup truck that belonged to Jack Czywczynski, the operator of the museum, and placed it in the road for a roadblock...