Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaking to a small group, he may stab the air with an emphatic forefinger (above). Or, as he makes a solid point, he may make a clenching gesture with one fist, held so close to his side as almost to escape notice. But his expressive face does most of his gesturing for him; people rarely misunderstand Ike in a face-to-face conversation, even though, in cold transcript, his sentences sometimes balloon into syntactical confusion...
Although Dunster remains a solid favorite to win both the "A" and "B" titles in the Intramural Basketball league, Leverett hopes to upset the predictions and take at least the A title...
...University of Alabama's Fullback Tommy Lewis of Greenville, Ala. is a solid (6 ft. 190 Ibs.), steady-looking athlete, but under his crimson jersey there burns an impulsive pride of state and university. When Tommy Lewis, 21, was taken out for a rest in the second quarter of the Cotton Bowl game with Rice last week, his Alabama was trailing by only one point. Lewis himself had scored a first-quarter touchdown for the Crimson Tide. But soon, from his seat on the bench, Tommy saw real trouble coming: far downfield, on the 5-yd. line, Rice...
...What the older generation of readers never knew was that there never was a Victor Appleton, nor is there one now. The old Tom series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before his death in 1930, fed a whole stable of writers with plots, supervised their finished products, and made it a point...
...novel's end, Cress's folks call her back from college to be at her dying grandfather's bedside. In a scene less solid than symbolic, Cress, now 16, gets her diploma from girlhood, and finally meets, in the fact of her grandfather's death, a reality larger than herself...