Word: solider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resort hotels were booked solid by a younger generation to whom Rosh Hashana seemed little more than a two-day vacation. But in some Orthodox homes men received fish heads to symbolize their position as heads of families and honey was spread on bread to symbolize the coming of a sweet and fruitful year. Only in Jerusalem was there mourning-among the pious who could not hold their traditional services at the ancient Wailing Wall in the Arab-held Old City...
Lack of financial foresight by some members of the 1948-49 Council has created a serious situation as a new Council starts its year. Attention to economy moves like these suggested above can help this new Council to get back on more solid ground and to stay there in the future...
...week's end, the Senate voted. On the peril-point amendment, the vote divided almost exactly on party lines; only three Democrats-Colorado's Ed Johnson, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-crossed over to support the solid front of 35 Republicans. It was not enough. The amendment was defeated...
Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, 38, decided to divorce third husband Jack Briggs, 29, onetime movie bit player, after 6½ years of marriage. Not only did he "refuse to come home at a decent hour like a good husband should," Ginger complained, but he never even produced "a good, solid excuse...
...area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides to anyone who wanted to go to church on Sunday morning. Last week, after two Sundays of free rides, Cabman Gray, son of a Methodist minister, could report that his idea was a solid success...