Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved a fogbound classic. Asked the head: INFLATION OR DEFLATION? Answered the boldface subhead: "Washington policymakers see the signs pointing both ways. But most economists agree that neither one is inevitable...
...retrial-this time without use of the tainted confessions. More important was the overall effect: once again, and this time by a split decision, the court had inflamed the suspicions of critics who hold that too many of its recent decisions are anchored more in sociology than in the solid substance...
...traipsing between South America and California last week, after confiding to Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham that a going marriage is based on the little things that count. Said Terry: "For our first-month anniversary, Gene gave me diamond earrings. The next month, a gold bracelet and a solid gold carryall. Third month, a race horse. Fourth, a five-carat diamond ring. Next, a diamond bracelet from Tiffany's. The sixth-month anniversary, there was a blue Cadillac Eldorado waiting outside the door." Later "anniversary" loot: fancy apartments in Manhattan and Venezuela, mink, more diamonds. Sighed Terry: "Gene made...
...body will be considerably less than that, but will be a potent force among the 2,000,000 Orthodox Jews in the U.S.-not by weight of numbers but of influence; it claims to include in its 150,000 membership a solid majority of the U.S. Orthodox rabbinate. A.R.Z.O. will try to strengthen Jewish religious life in the U.S., is especially concerned with expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit...
Feed it to the Big Man In the stands, the Texas A. & M. cadets bellowed in delighted astonishment. Down on the basketball floor their hopped-up team was running the lanky legs off Southern Methodist and an upset seemed in the making. S.M.U. was the solid favorite on the strength of its 11-1 record and its 4th-place ranking in the nation...