Word: solidate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University officials have been worried for months about the impact of new draft rules lifting the exemptions of most graduate students next year (TIME, Nov. 24, 1967), but without any reliable estimate of just how hard they would be hit. Last week they had some solid figures to consider, and there was indeed cause for gloom. Based on the probability that almost all draftable men aged 22 through 25 will be called (the draft takes older eligibles first), a survey by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Scientific Manpower...
...rock 'n' roll, carefully balance their play list of new releases with selected classics of the genre (examples: the Platters' The Great Pretender, Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven, the Everly Brothers' Bye Bye Love). New York's WOR-FM ("The Sound of Solid Gold") is one of six RKO General radio stations across the country on which the proportion of oldies is as high...
Sammy Davis Jr. wore shiny leather pants-boots, side-zipped leather jacket, open-throated red shirt and a heavy gold medallion on a chain. On the make shift stage and backed by Louis Bellson's orchestra, he socked it to the audience of 485 Hollywood celebrities for a solid forty minutes. "If you don't take it easy, I'm gonna leave!" shouted Joey Bishop from his ringside table. Sammy, sweat glistening on his face, sang and danced even harder. The per formance rated him a standing ovation. Pierre Salinger seemed positively stunned. "The chemistry was fantastic...
...four of the British crews had lost in the opening races, in the greatest national tragedy since Victoria's death. Foreign possession of the Challenge Cup was unavoidable, but there was now a solid chance that, for the first time, the colonies might win it. In addition to the young Harvards, the "old Harvards"--the Union Boat Club of Boston--had won its first race...
...assertion. Except for one bar specifically marked "Lyrically," all that emerged from the piano Friday night was forceful, if controlled, declamation. The delicious orchestration, the fascinating, semi-indeterminate transition between the two movements, and the exquisite use of the celeste to close the composition could not compensate for the solid but harsh interpretation of the soloist...