Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trailer takeoff, an F-84 Thunderjet is equipped with a big "booster bottle" (solid propellant rocket) fixed under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from...
...from the militantly proletarian school of his countrymen Rivera and Siqueiros. At 54 Tamayo has come a long way from the Mexico City fruit markets where he grew up, has become one of the Western Hemisphere's most sought-after painters. Contrasted with Chardin's chill but solid mastery, Tamayo's Fruit Vendors looks ungainly in drawing and uncertain in composition. The colors, which glow hot and cold through a spreading stain of shadows, enforce the ambiguous mood. And the mood, which might be that of a romantic summer night or of a nightmare, carries the picture...
...significant thing that happened during the first week was that Speaker Rayburn designated as House Bill No. 1 a bill to carry out President Eisenhower's recommendations for a liberal foreign trade program. It is in this field that the 84th Congress has its best chance for a solid achievement...
...more dizzying and imaginative height of superlative, and there is certainly no lack of abominations that waste everyone's time, but just good plays are rare. Perhaps it is because a producer is more confident of a play that is extreme, one way or another, than of a solid, bread-and-butter show that should neither fail nor celebrate staggering success...
These matches have also been helpful to Wynn, who has had the chance to concentrate on the less obvious mistakes of his players. Stressing a solid game based on equally strong forehand and backhand, Wynn works more for steady, wearing play than flashy strokes...