Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only yesterday Turkey had seemed a solid rock in the free world's sea of uncertainties. Now it is a bothered bastion. Its economy is sick and its government is flirting with bankruptcy. Its brief but intense experience with democracy is afflicted with a return of the familiar weapons of autocracy...
...Miss Brooks has switched from public high to private elementary school without making any great change in the standard cast or plot. The brightest of the new situation shows is You'll Never Get Rich, starring Funnyman Phil Silvers as an Army top sergeant with a heart of solid larceny. Silvers makes life in the armed forces seem like a rainbow-colored version of a goldbricker's dream...
...Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs...
Particularly on defense should the freshmen be solid. They scrimmaged Dartmouth plays against the varsity all week, which should take some of the surprise out of the Indians' unique V-formation offense...
...kept in place (like Bishop Berkeley's tree in the quad) by God, or at least by church custom or class. Today, the selves are multiplying like amoebae, and a man with only one is downright backward. Man's identity was scooped out of its solid container by the Machine, spattered all over the place by psychoanalysis, and is being scraped up, in denatured form by the modern state. "Governments all over the world . . . give you cards, on which they inscribe in capital letters the name which your fading memory supplies before it is too late...