Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious self-detachment of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 5−mortared with solid ribs of shyness, intellectualism, and an abiding sense of correctness −is the base of his perplexing personality, and still puzzle of the politicos...
...fellow Southerners were sure of one thing: they would not countenance a change in the wording that would indicate any pledge to implement the Supreme Court's decision. This settled, John McCormack called for a vote at 2:45 a.m. For the record, the solid South dutifully voted against the plank, knowing full well that it would carry...
...Garage. Victim No. 4 was a gentleman named Jerzy de Laveaux who lived in the apartment above Mazurkiewicz and possessed, among other things, a 42-lb. solid gold bar, a ten-carat diamond worth $5,000 and perhaps $10.000 in American greenbacks (the standard black-market medium). Mazurkiewicz invited him into the woods to swap currencies, then murdered him and dumped his body in the river...
...nonwhite" nations of the world lined up against Britain and France in a virtually solid front. Iraq, Britain's strongest ally in the Middle East, announced that it "stands beside Egypt." And from New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Nehru sharply chided the "warlike gestures" of Britain and France...
Pritchett criticism resembles an elaborately woven square of cloth which, held up at one end, hangs together all of a piece. The Pritchett short story is just the opposite. It exists (as modern life does, in Pritchett's view) "in fragments rather than as solid mass," and exults in bursts of fire, sharp changes of tempo, explosions of mood. And it is usually extremely cheerful, regardless of what it is about-as if the characters, like their author, were glad to escape from the stiffer world of Pritchett criticism...