Word: solid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...
...Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...
...rate, fear that the trade balance may turn around again when raw material prices rise and import demand in Britain picks up as a result of economic expansion. But Britain is clearly out of its balance-of-trade crisis, and the outlook ahead-in the best British tradition-is solid without being spectacular...
When the $110 million George Washington joins the fleet in the fall of 1960, it will carry 16 solid-fuel, nuclear-nosed Polaris missiles (range: 1,500 miles) in its "silos," be capable of cruising for months on its water-cooled nuclear reactors, launch its birds without. surfacing (TIME, March 3, 1958). Its mission: to provide a mobile undersea missile base that Russia can never count on knocking out in a sneak ICBM attack...
...costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis-still a sovereign remedy. Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which...