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  • A city of western Arkansas on the Oklahoma border west-northwest of Little Rock. It was founded as a military post in 1817.

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  • noun a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border

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  • "We can live in Pork Smith which is what mr. delagar has started calling Fort Smith and have nothing and no traffic, or live in an actual place which has B&N bookstores and Sam Ash music stores and the H-E-B and traffic jams 24/7."

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  • "We can live in Pork Smith which is what mr. delagar has started calling Fort Smith and have nothing and no traffic, or live in an actual place which has B&N bookstores and Sam Ash music stores and the H-E-B and traffic jams 24/7."

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  • On Oct. 15, an FBI agent called Fort Smith police, asking detectives to talk to Calagna, now 18.

    Apologetics Index 2008

  • On Oct. 15, an FBI agent called Fort Smith police, asking detectives to talk to Calagna, now 18.

    Apologetics Index 2008

  • On Oct. 15, an FBI agent called Fort Smith police, asking detectives to talk to Calagna, now 18.

    Apologetics Index 2008

  • On Oct. 15, an FBI agent called Fort Smith police, asking detectives to talk to Calagna, now 18.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell 2008

  • On Oct. 15, an FBI agent called Fort Smith police, asking detectives to talk to Calagna, now

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  • (unintelligible) and Fort Smith, which is right on the Arkansas/Oklahoma border.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Nixon I'd say is still fairly strong in Fort Smith which is, in conventional terms, supposed to be one of the most conservative towns in America.

    Oral History Interview with William J. (Bill) Clinton, June 15, 1974. Interview A-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • Faced with tough competition from Korean rivals and higher costs for plastics and other raw materials, Whirlpool in October announced plans to close factories in Fort Smith, Ark., and Neunkirchen, Germany, among other cost-cutting steps.

    Whirlpool Cost Cuts Help Margins James R. Hagerty 2012

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