Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Switch) before he would discuss full-scale resumption of the truce talks (the Big Switch), which he designated as a "second order of business." The Reds acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy's first underwater demolition team, John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came from the first session this week reporting that the Communists were "very objective"-meaning...
Edith Evans, who has played Lady Bracknell on the stage, is magnificently victorian. Gaudily-gowned and rouged, Dame Evans is an awe-inspiring matriarch who distrusts everything but the "solid quality" of money. Screeching and bellowing, she commands both the characters and the film with the delicacy of a moose...
...poetry is led by Hall's "Exile", which won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford last year. It is solid in imagery and theme and is not easily forgotten. And I especially liked the almost-epigrammatic conciseness of George Stener's "Fish Story", a poem about poetry...
...want and how to get it; their victims have suffered in the past because their defense has been scattered. Against those who would end free teaching, discussion, and research in the name of finding criminal conspirators, the report constructs a wall of defense for the free exchange of ideas solid and unified enough to encompass all colleges and teachers...
Independent physicists Norman J. Holter and W. R. Glasscock of Helena, Mont., reported Arnold, collected snow or rainwater and filtered it through cotton. The idea was to locate large deposits of uranium ore by means of the radioactive gases that they give off. Some of the gases turn into solid, radioactive elements, which are carried down by rain...