Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American ports. Our bombers do not need American aerodromes . . . But we are not so sure that the U.S. will not someday need us ... The Pyrenees [will always be] a solid barrier defended by men with guts and not by existentialists...
...musical rapprochement between Dallas and its bitter rival, Fort Worth, 35 miles away. One afternoon last month Hendl, in overalls and a farmer's straw hat, conducted a successful children's concert in Fort Worth. That evening, in white tie, he gave their elders a solid program of Bach, Mozart and Stravinsky. Forthwith, Fort Worth Flour Miller Edwin Bewley Jr. persuaded a group of his fellow citizens to form a Fort Worth Symphony Society. Its purpose: to promote further concerts in Fort Worth by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
...fault lies in the script, not in the acting of the east. Claude Jarman, Jr., as the boy, and Jauno Hernandez, as the Negro, are both excellent, especially the former in his portrayal of terror. Elizabeth Patterson gives another of her solid performances as the old lady who believes in justice even for black people...
...court as a witness in Trial No. 1. For the first time someone other than Whittaker Chambers had given direct testimony that Alger Hiss had been a Communist. This week as big, slow-moving Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy rested his case, the Government seemed on more solid ground than it had been during the original trial...
...F.D.R., My Boss, Grace Tully set down such between-dictation details as she had observed in nearly 17 stenographic years. Eleanor Roosevelt's This I Remember was the historically valuable reminiscing of a wife who concluded that "I was one of those who served his purposes." Solid to Fascinating. Most of the year's good biographies had literary figures for their subjects. Others ranged from worthy-solid (Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis' authoritative but somewhat unwieldy career study of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy} to fascinating (Richard Aldington's The Strange...