Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little trouble now and then getting his legs to catch up with pop fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark, 34, is hitting a solid .295, holds the infield together with his big glove and his spark-plugging chatter. Even Walker Cooper, the Cards' great catcher of the '40s, is creaking his 42-year-old bones off the bench to pinch-hit home an occasional...
Citizens who want to get their teeth into solid facts on effects of water fluoridation had their answer last week in a 28-page pamphlet by a statistician who has at his fingertips more figures on health and disease, life and death, than any man living: Louis Israel Dublin...
...That, Pop? In Chicago, Psychologist Stanley Mitchell, telling parents that they could eliminate juvenile delinquency by whispering good thoughts into their youngsters' ears as they slept, said: "The kids wouldn't hear, but their subconscious minds would, and this would build a solid relationship between parents and child...
...tourist-trodden Europe, many major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...
Above the visitors was a two-ton chandelier of solid bronze inlaid with nickel; around them were porcelain and plaster tiles of blue, green and gold in geometric designs. Verses from the Koran and the 99 formal Arabic titles of Allah gleamed in gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings. Outside, the sun sparkled on the crescent that tops the minaret 160 ft. above Washington's stately Massachusetts Avenue. The $1,250,000 mosque (built with the contributions of 15 Moslem nations) stands canted to the street in order to face Mecca.*The world's only air-conditioned...