Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clique-ridden Veterans Administration was handed to him; he made sense out of its sprawling bureaucracy, returned to active military service and succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as Chief of Staff. Over the years Omar Bradley, the man who never raised his voice, never mixed in service feuds, had won the solid admiration of everybody from plain soldiers (who called him the doughboys' general) to Government bureaucrats, to his fellow generals. The Third Army's brilliant, fractious George Patton, one of his subordinates, once told him: "Between my screwy ideas and your brains, we certainly come up with some wonderful...
...tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...
...Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...month after setting out, Heysen and the remnants of his band reached Angayza, the first white men ever known to have been there. If any of them had expected the mountain to be solid gold, they were disappointed, though ore samples did contain gold. Last week a government communique announced: "Lieut. Colonel Heysen's report and valuable ore samples will be carefully studied and analyzed. The results will be used as a basis for further operations." Some Peruvians wondered if the "further operations" might not yet lead to El Dorado...
Indoors & Out. Neutra's house for the B.s had been finished and occupied by last week. Viewed from the street it lay along the hillside like an airy fort, constructed of redwood, rosy-beige stucco and plate glass. A solidly railed, angular deck jutted out at one side; a larger, unrailed deck of slat-grill redwood served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies...