Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment approached, no candidate could claim anywhere near a majority of solid, blitz-proof delegates. Like its well-remembered counterpart of 1940, this would be an open convention. Most of the convention's 1,094 votes were still uncommitted to any candidate. The delegates' decisions were still deferred for many reasons: honest indecision, a desire to make a deal, a desire to be on the winning side...
Last week Jim Duff moved into the firing line with his rifle cocked. As rumors of deals and counter-deals mounted, Duff summoned a press conference in Harrisburg. Said he flatly: "I have been saying for a solid year that I am not a candidate for anything and I'm not going to be. It has been suggested that I am anxious to be a Cabinet member in the next Administration. I do not expect to be. I will not be-and that is without reservation or qualification...
Candidate Creighton looked just like what Indiana Republicans like: a native Hoosier, American Legionnaire, father of four, solid churchgoer (Evangelical United Brethren), a self-made rich...
...Plaza's victory was finally confirmed (the court would not give a final verdict for a month), Ecuador would get a bustling administration that would go slow on social reform, drive hard to put the country on a solid business basis. Moreover, Plaza has been around enough (he studied at the University of California, was ambassador to the U.S.) to know something about getting the foreign help that Ecuador desperately needs. If the court decides for Flor-well, Plaza might win anyhow. "If they try to deprive us of victory by such means," threatened a Plaza subaltern, "blood will...
Casbah (Universal-International). "Come with me to the Casbah" has become almost as solid a cliché, in American romantic kidding, as Mae West's "Come up and see me some time" used to be. The Casbah owes its popularity to Detective Ashelbe's tried & true romantic tale about the French super-crook Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who just sneers at the cops as long as he keeps to the native quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides...