Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saudi talks produced the kind of solid physical supports without which the Eisenhower doctrine would founder in its offer of military support against Communist aggression in the Middle East. "There was agreement," said one U.S. official, "on everything we discussed." Beyond concord on aims and future pursuits within the framework of the U.N., the two countries agreed that 1) the U.S. will continue to use the strategically important Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia for the next five years, in return for which 2) the U.S. will provide economic assistance and, over a five-year stretch, some $50 million...
...brighter side, the rapidly improving duo of Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge makes the Crimson solid favorites for big points in the dash, while Cohen figures to take the hurdles, with the hard-working Landau also picking up points...
...Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
Julius' and Melanie's main aim in life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster...
Generally considered to be the top college team in the country, the varsity was a solid pre-match favorite to bring its season's record to 5-0 and extend its undefeated string which had stretched over the past two years. But Navy never gave Harvard an inch, and only number one man Ben Heckscher was able to win his match...