Word: solider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Trommer's is one version of an apocryphal story. According to another version, Capone's highjinks disturbed the sleep of J. C. Penney's house guest Herbert Hoover who, in turn, put Capone in jail. The solid facts are: 1) Penney's estate was on an island nearly a mile across the lagoon from Capone's; 2) Hoover was a house guest at the Penney estate in January 1929; 3) Miami police arrested Capone at least three times in April and May 1930 on charges of "being a public nuisance and source of annoyance...
This week, on the day the rail strike was to end, the Western commandants would get together with the Russians to try to work out a solid agreement on trade and traffic between the West zones and Berlin. Meanwhile, the steady day & night roar of the planes-which had brought terror to Berlin during the war and defiant hope during the peace-would continue as before. The U.S. announced that Operation Vittles would be carried on indefinitely; it was too important a weapon to be dismantled...
...Formosa's resentment has failed to weld a solid revolutionary party. The island's leaders are more emotional than realistic. Fifty years of Japanese control kept them out of top government positions, barred them from adequate administrative experience. Though all are bitterly critical of both Nationalists and Communists (said one Formosan recently returned from Red Peiping: "The regimes of Nationalists and Communists are like eggs laid down by snakes of the same family"), they seem more interested in paddling their own canoes than shaping a strong third force that would be the best weapon against the communism they...
...west coast, silvery Atlantic salmon were running in a score of rivers. The big ones picked the lordly Humber. Last week, U.S. sportsmen were heading in to try the Humber's limpid pools. On the more popular of Newfoundland's 108 major salmon rivers, cabins were booked solid. (Cost: $25 a day for board, room, canoe and guide...
...into a bog or into quicksand, and been unable to get out. Perhaps the bank of a prehistoric river caved in on it. It sank down into the cold, Pleistocene mud, which kept out the air and preserved the body. With the coming of winter, the mammoth was frozen solid; the river kept on dropping silt. Moss and peat kept the body insulated...