Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handling of organized labor-the one area where Perón had a solid base of political support-Lonardi moved with caution and conciliation. Instead of using his state-of-siege power to "intervene," i.e., take over, the powerful General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), he announced his confidence that labor could purge its own ranks without government compulsion. The new President also stepped adroitly around the vexed question of La Prensa, the great newspaper that Perón confiscated and turned over to the C.G.T. with an elaborate show of legality. Lonardi explained that he would not hand the paper...
...This Yankee team hasn't been my idea of a solid ball club so I had to play the percentages." A Matter of Time. Playing the percentages, of course, can be a pastime for men without imagination, who get all their answers by adding a column of figures. Casey gets results by using some weird arithmetic of his own, by grappling with private statistics in a man ner that barely makes sense to ordinary mortals...
...outfield, the Dodgers are solid. Carl Furillo has one of the strongest throwing arms in the majors. Only fast or foolhardy men will try to run on him when he gets a jump on the ball. Duke Snider in center can go get the tough ones. At the plate he takes a harder cut than either Campy or the Yankees' Yogi Berra, and he can hit the ball wherever it is pitched. Even a high outside ball, if Duke can reach it, will wind up in the leftfield stands. Junior Silliam, who broke in as Brooklyn's second...
Even royal mistresses, such as Henri IV's Gabrielle d'Estrees (see color page), posed to show their full, solid voluptuousness revealed under the thinnest of gossamer veils. To hold a king's roving eye, Painter François Bunel the Younger needed all his Mannerist tricks: he shifted the focus endlessly within the frame, from head and face to breasts to Gabrielle's arched, elegant hand holding a ring, then to maidservant, and finally to Gabrielle's mirrored profile, which disobeys all known laws of reflection...
...other Mannerist extreme stood El Greco, who in his Toledo paintings finally dissolved the too, too solid flesh from his saints, painted them with bodies soaring upward, elongated and weightless, with fingers no more than mere ribbons of flesh. When El Greco died in 1614, the Age of Mannerism was already drawing to a close. But before El Greco died, he had validated the Mannerists' extreme contention, that the laws of perspective and proportion must give way before man's inner vision, which not so much mocks nature as triumphs over...