Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanding. His decision to speak this week in Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee (as well as Florida and Pennsylvania, which were already leaning his way) indicated that he is ready to battle right down to the line for at least four states that a few weeks ago were rated solid for Stevenson. From state after state came reports that Ike was holding, or even increasing, his vote among women. The much-publicized farm revolt appeared moribund. Negro shifts to Eisenhower were indicated in such states as New York, Maryland and Delaware. Pollster Lubell's campaign discovery was that...
This is how TIME correspondents last week rated the 48 states: Solid for Stevenson: The South is shrinking as a Democratic realm, but Adlai can depend on Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and despite an independent ticket favoring Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina...
...Solid for Eisenhower: Ike and G.O.P. Senate candidates can count on the Republican strongholds of Maine (although Democrats won in the September state elections), New Hampshire, Vermont, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota...
...primly pinned with a golden ribbon bow. But in the modeling of the forehead, he has also suggested the very qualities which her husband (whose supposed portrait hangs in Kansas City's Nelson Gallery) no doubt most prized: not proud and haughty beauty but industry neatness and the solid virtue of goodness...
This new alignment and a solid week of practice may enable the Crimson to spring an upset. Of course, Penn may be the best team on its schedule this year, but nevertheless it is hard to understand why this team should have lost so many. If it cannot break the habit today, it may not do it all season...