Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bohlen and press reports from U.S. correspondents in Moscow added up to a tentative conclusion: the Russians had decided to move their "volunteers" at least into Syria and possibly into Egypt, to stake out the Red army's first foothold in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence added solid evidence that complete Red air force units had already flown over Turkey and taken up positions on three airfields in Syria...
Meredith's newest idea is mortgages on automobile house trailers. Though many bankers consider trailer owners poor risks, Meredith argues, "Most of them are pretty solid-a lot are retired people who want to travel a little, and a lot are skilled and highly paid workers who have to go from one job to another.'' In 27 months National Life has lent $15 million at 5% and 6%. Total loss to date: $75. Says Meredith: "You have to keep up with modern developments...
...baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth in water and gave it to him to suck. The crying stopped. Everybody began to smile. A young monk turned to the Father Superior with a pleading look. "C-can we keep him. Father...
...report published today, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, described the Eisenhower administration's economic policy as "solid and realistic," while Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, made "some reservations" about the present prosperity...
Hadrian's Wall. Today an invisible Hadrian's wall still divides British art into a realm of excitable, Celtic imagination that runs from Blake to Bacon on one side and a John Bull love of country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...