Word: solider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chance in 200. What Gralla and his crew had come to shoot were three 57-ft. X-17A solid-propellant rockets, each tipped with a 1.5 kiloton atomic warhead (equivalent in blast to 1,500 tons of TNT). Since he had no target to hit except the wide sky, Gralla's job might have seemed simple, but in fact it was fantastically difficult. To enable the rockets to travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely...
...gathering were delegations from every Communist nation except Yugoslavia. Their presence was a solid sign that Gomulka is a member in good standing of the world Communist club, despite his highly unorthodox approach to Communism in Poland...
Shepard spoke first about his catcher, John Davis--the team captain and a consistent, wholly dependable veteran. Here is one position, at least, where the varsity can expect to be "solid." But else-where, the picture is far more uncertain...
Donohue captained his high school varsity, and will be a solid team leader, if he lives up to the standards of his most recent performances. Several times this season, he was responsible for the hustling defense and occasionally brilliant fast breaks that marked most of the varsity's efforts, especially in Ivy League play...
...arena at the Charles Playhouse is set by Robert G. Skinner with a few solid, bare beams, evocative of Puritan living conditions and symbolic of the strong, harsh, undecorated, uneuphemistic outlook of the Puritan soul. To some degree this is Mr. Miller's outlook too, and according to it he has made a sturdy play, admirable in many aspects and intermittently powerful...