Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas is another fascinating instance of a South that is "solid" like a hole in the head. In the Democratic primaries, Lyndon Johnson squeaked by former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson promptly yelled "fraud," but his efforts to have Johnson's name lopped off the ballot were foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The former Governor then switched his support to the Republican, Porter, and he has undoubtedly taken a passel of old-line Democrats across the tracks with him. This "treachery," plus Democratic uneasiness over the President's civil rights program and the attractions of a straight Republican ticket, makes...
...women, pale blue is good: it comes out on the screen a charming off-white. Various shades of blue offer a fine range of greys. Bright purple turns into a steady, solid black...
...pretty turgid stuff. Also indicative of its savor is the name of Belinda's father: Black McDonald. Yet the picture has many winning qualities. Jane Wyman plays the mute with sweetness and considerable skill. Mr. Ayres is modest and sympathetic. Mr. Bickford and Miss Moorehead do solid jobs of character acting. Stephen (formerly Horace) McNally is a vigorous personality and also a very good actor. In some stretches the picture is just well-sliced ham, but in others it is so good that it hardly seems possible the same crew made...
...real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
...editorial Freeman told Richmonders: "In spite of the wastefulness of the New Deal, the arrogance of some of his [F.D.R.'s] lieutenants, the incompetence of others and the un-Americanism of still others, we believe his preparation for the war and his conduct of it represent solid credit balances . . . This greatest of wars has been in every essential respect much the best conducted of them all. Believe it or not, Roosevelt has outdone every wartime President...