Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returning liberated France to constitutional democracy (TIME, Dec. 13). Admiral Jean François Darlan, the puppet and symbol of Allied expediency, was dead; General Henri Honoré Giraud, the later instrument of expediency, was in eclipse. Their alternative and countersymbol, General de Gaulle, was no longer the sole and dominant symbol of Fighting France. The Liberation Committee and its corollary advisory Consultative Assembly had to some extent overshadowed him. All responsible observers in Algiers, including some who had opposed De Gaulle, now recognized the fact that the Committee and the Assembly constituted the best attainable cross section of opinion...
...living reproach to Aristotle, Cherubini and Schnozzola is the Flute Club of New York. For 24 solid years, ever since the bearded, quizzical French flutist Georges Barrère founded it, the sodality has met regularly for the sole purpose of discussing, playing and listening to the flute. A few years ago the club erected a flutistic milestone by presenting the U.S. premiére of Henry Brandt's Concerto for Flute with an Orchestra of Ten Flutes...
...pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from a few light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, the German Navy's sole remaining surface threat is the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, never yet in action, and last reported hiding out in the Baltic port of Stettin...
Most of the material was developed by virtually the entire band, and only a few compositions could truly be considered the sole work of any one man. The Ellington band had an exceptionally stable personnel between 1927 and 1941, but the past two years have brought about three or four times as many changes as the Ellington band has ever had. As a result, the music is less distinctive, less personal, and somewhat streamlined...
...Invade States' Rights? Southern Congressmen bitterly and openly opposed what looked like a flank attack on the poll tax. Mississippi's James Eastland spoke for a large group: "The sole issue ... is whether we are to turn the election machinery of the country over to an aggregation of power-crazy bureaucrats in Washington...