Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the sabre squad was able to win, with its customary solid showing. Dave Silbert won all three, while Mitch Thomas came back from a first bout loss to win the next two. Doug Runnels added a win to give the varsity a 6-3 margin...
Satisfying Slap. Mike Mansfield had scored a major triumph. His amendment 1) gave the Democrats something solid to show for all the nagging, 2) enabled them to get in a hard, satisfying slap at Ike and Dulles while assuming a statesmanlike stance and, incidentally, 3) justified Harry Truman's 1950 decision to send U.S. forces into Korea without congressional authorization...
...wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots in the Navy, leading an aerial stunt team called the High. Hatters, even standing in as stuntman for Clark Gable in the epic Hell Divers. But one of his wingmen of those days now prefers to dwell upon the solid and undramatic way that Radford led his men on the routine patrols. "Raddy had it even then, as a lieutenant commander," the wingman says. "You could see he thought bigger than his immediate job, no matter what...
...Laborites, cock-a-hoop with the victory, had won with 1) a more attractive candidate (capable Barrister Niall MacDermot), 2) a solid, close-to-the-pocketbook issue in a proposed Tory bill to relax rent controls, 3) a much better political machine. The Tories were inclined to blame most of their troubles on a third candidate, a Junoesque, right-wing independent named Leslie Greene, 31, who campaigned on "I have no faith in the U.S." She siphoned off 1,487 votes, the majority of them presumably from the Tories. But Candidate Greene was not the whole explanation; since the last...
...rules of the game were laid down long ago by Mair, the hantan hero-god who lives in the blue sky (which is solid, and rests on the circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said...