Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just three weeks and one day after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery...
...long strike worries Administration economists, worries industry, and worries the union rank and file. With the Federal Government committed to staying out of the picture as long as possible, it is precisely the economic pressures of the industry-union worry that will prompt a more rapid, more solid settlement...
While Harriman was having trouble getting the wood on the ball at Atlantic City, Stevenson rattled solid base hits off political fences from Minnesota to Tennessee. In Minnesota, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention instructed its 30-vote national convention delegation to switch to Stevenson as soon as released by Kefauver, who won their votes by upsetting Stevenson in Minnesota's March primary. And in Kefauver's home state of Tennessee, the state Democratic convention all but ran the Keef out of the ball park by refusing him even a favorite-son endorsement. Most likely to pick...
...Aerobee-Hi is not strictly a single-stage rocket. It is tossed into the air by a solid-fuel booster that burns for a few seconds. The booster does not contribute much altitude. One of the earlier Aerobee-Hi's failed because the main rocket did not ignite. The booster alone raised it only...
...clarinetists have managed to make their instruments speak in a style that falls somewhere between the solid fundamentals of swing and the freest flights of progressive jazz. Their methods are similar: play a basic melody in the old style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...