Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months that shook the soviet empire have passed since the last announced Moscow meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Yet to hear the Committee tell it last week as it wound up five solid days of deliberations, all they had really talked about was the current state of the Russian economy...
...peculiar theological conflicts among U.S. Protestants, who have done lots of internecine fighting in their day, has been between the Fundamentalists and the Seventh-day Adventists. Fundamentalism-the powerful, conservative wing of U.S. Protestantism, which is solid in the Bible Belt and has grown increasingly influential elsewhere in recent years-has long regarded the Adventists as un-Christian cultists, riddled with strange heresies and fringe fantasies that make them dangerous company for the soul. But last week one of the leading organs of Fundamentalist opinion in the U.S. reversed that position. The monthly Eternity, which has an influence among Fundamentalists...
...Solid Argument. In Los Angeles, Viola Fredieu sued Harold Hester to recover her 49 gallstones, which he was using in sales promotion to show prospective customers what might happen if they refused to buy his water-softening equipment...
...summer the Hoppers occupy a little house alone on a high dune near Truro, Cape Cod. Hopper designed it himself, and it looks like a Hopper. The house makes no concessions to Cape Cod cuteness; it has no green shutters, no weathered shingles, only plain white clapboard, a solid, square-cut frame and a huge, clear picture window. Leading to it from the road is an almost impassably rutted track, a quarter of a mile long. Their neighbors debate whether the Hoppers have left their drive unpaved through unsociability or frugality...
...company. He admitted that Penn-Texas 1) sold off some of its properties and leased them back to raise capital and 2) bought Fairbanks, Morse stock for $45. But he thought both were good deals. Fairbanks, Morse stock now sells for $56, said he, and Penn-Texas is on solid financial ground, is not being pressed by the banks from which it borrowed, had nine-month earnings...