Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France adviser who has never liked Faure. In a high moralistic tone, the paragraph hinted that just before quitting the Finance Ministry, Faure had proposed the tax on racehorse sales in favor of wealthy horse owners. Concluded L'Express: "The wall between politics and money is not as solid as one would like." Seated on a brocaded couch, Faure read intently, his face darkening, then sprang to his feet...
...sense, wealthy (endowment: $20 million plus an annual income from the Duke Endowment Trust) Duke is really not at all the parvenu it seems. Long before its Gothic towers rose on the empty fields along the western edge of Durham, N.C., the town already had a solid little liberal arts college named Trinity. Said the Trinity catalogue in 1892: "The society of Durham is cultured and elegant." Even more important, elegant Durham also had money. Tobacco Tycoon Washington Duke poured thousands into...
...football game doesn't ruin a fall, of course and it was a long way to exam period. But there were two developments that tempered weekend enthusiasm and made defeats all the worse. The day of the wooden goalposts was gone, replaced by an era of solid steel things. Drinking at games had gotten out of hand, they said, and "obvious violators" would be thrown out before they and their drinks could get into the game. Columnist Red Smith chided the H.A.A. for depriving spectators of "the only solace that would serve" when the Crimson wasn't winning...
...stock market, after a sharp one-day tumble, found solid ground, rose for four days running. The Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 395.90, only a fraction below the week before. Among the leaders: Douglas Aircraft Co., which rose more than ten points to 134¾ on the strength of cash dividends totaling $1.50 and a 3-for-2 stock split...
...blamed for recalling the days or Klan terror when their Northern critics demand an immediate change. The same enlightened Southerners point with justifiable pride to the immense and recent progress made in Negro education and social improvement. They fear that the great strides which have been made toward a solid understanding between the races will be wiped away by a forced desegregation. Virtually all of the respected, liberal voices of the South are urging a program of intensified school building for Negro children as well as a long-range industrialization to raise the living standard of the negro, but none...