Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only so long as they illuminate some dilemma in which the people on stage find themselves. But the important characters in Shangri-La have no real problem since their story turns on accidents over which they have no control. As a result, their airy musings, based on nothing more solid than some vague discontent, are irrelevant, obvious, and dull...
...Allies. Such surefire schemes may well see the Christian Democrats safely through the 1957 elections. But the old political scene is fast changing. Adenauer once had the most impressive and solid parliamentary majority in Western Europe (334 votes out of 487), but it has been whittled down to 281 votes, and many who vote for him are restive...
...university's library, has seen the circulation of books double in five years. But all this, says he, is only the beginning. "We've got a long way to go. If we decide to expand 20 years from now, we'll have a good, solid base. After all, what happens to education happens to America. We want the best to happen at Notre Dame...
...individual shareholders had given him their votes. With what he and his family owned he could muster only 98,950 votes, barely enough to win four of the 15 seats on the board. The old management, with 71.5% of the 414,916 shares eligible to vote, remained in solid control...
...feedlot operators or to farmers who also specialize in fattening cattle for market. In Warren Montfort's barn in Greeley, Colo., a huge, self-unloading truck moves unceasingly up and down the quarter-mile-long pens, pushing Montfort's special feed mixture into the troughs while a solid line of white faces eat their heads off. Says Montfort: "This is a factory. We manufacture beef and nothing else...