Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swiss in grey lounge suits snapped to attention. Apple-cheeked Dutchmen bobbed orange tassels on their caps. Prim Japanese in blue blazers stood stiffly with blue-belted Russians and a U.S. contingent that sported red, Russian-style fur hats over their snappy white duffel coats. Uniformed Turks were a solid blob of black...
...Paris, where Mozart once sought a paying position in vain, government officials and academicians came to honor him at the Sorbonne. In London, a city to which Mozart considered fleeing from his continental misfortunes, the Royal Festival Hall and Covent Garden opera house were booked solid with Mozart music all week. Prague, the only city that applauded Don Giovanni while Mozart was alive, had a Mozart Week. Moscow presented Figaro at the Bolshoi Theater. Even Japan is broadcasting homage on its five radio stations and their networks, while Tokyo department stores display pictures of the composer in Ginza windows...
Last week United Lutherans' Northwest Synod confirmed the action of their trial committee by upholding the heresy conviction of Pastors Crist and Wrigley. But in solid Protestant tradition, and despite the Fry letter, leaders of Victor Wrigley's congregation at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Brookfield, Wis. pledged themselves to stick with him, even if that meant possible legal action by the synod...
Nike. In the antiaircraft division, the Army has the well-publicized Nike (rhymes with Mikey), a liquid-fuel rocket launched by a solid-fuel booster and steered toward invading bombers by radio. The Nike dates back to the Keller era and is not the last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...
Terrier. A small, solid-fuel antiaircraft missile, it is already installed on missile ships. Its range is short, and it will probably be replaced by the Tales, a rocket-ram-jet bird...