Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight jabbed, jabbed at the bag, crossed with a solid right, and then headed for the showers practicing his footwork all the way. As he left the Blockhouse's third floor boxing room, another boxer danced in and asked, "Hey, kid, you wanta work out a little...
...Retirement. Division commanders were a dime a dozen in World War II, and Dean, though he earned a solid professional reputation, came out of it with no public acclaim. It took defeat and captivity to give him that...
...Internal Security Subcommittee chairman, objected to Canadian censorship of "evidence vital to the security of the United States alone" and asked the State Department to forward still another note to Canada. This time Secretary of State John Foster Dulles politely declined, explaining that he thought the Canadians were "on solid ground" in their insistence on tight control of the interview. Then Gouzenko, who has turned uncommonly talkative after six years' silence, announced that he had decided not to be interviewed, lest he endanger his family. That seemed to settle the matter-unless Gouzenko changes his mind again...
...worked twelve or more hours a day, at one point had 16 jobs (among them: Solid Fuels Administrator, Coordinator of Fisheries, Petroleum Administrator). He suffered from chronic exhaustion, and sometimes rose in the lonely hours of the night to dose himself gloomily with whisky in an attempt to sleep. But he somehow found time through the years to dictate 6,000,000 words of private diary...
...Solid Evidence. In Helsinki, Finland, after Burglar Olavi Veikko Horppu complained that his stomach hurt, police doctors operated, found: broken bits of a dinner plate, two salad forks, a table knife, several razor blades and a handful of nails...