Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet note was careful not to denounce the 1945 Potsdam agreement outright. In the face of the determinedly solid Allied resolve to stand fast in Berlin, it included another amendment that let out a lot of the heat that Khrushchev had pumped into his crisis. The Soviet ambassador in Bonn had talked jauntily about Soviet troops leaving Berlin before Christmas. Russia now promised to make no change in Berlin for six months...
...they die. The upper class, socially defined, consists of between 300 and 500 families who are the remnants of the old Spanish hacienda-owning aristocracy. Across the gulf between rich and poor stretches the growing middle class, a healthy 9,000,000 strong, born of industry and fed by solid paychecks and hope. It is so new and changing that Mexicans vie to define it. A man enters the middle class-according to typical definitions-when...
...Teutonic tatters.* Along with the new lingo, a new generation of singers (or shouters) have appeared, all of them alarmingly young. Where U.S. rock 'n' rollers are well along in years (19-25), Germany's top practitioners are in their early teens, and at least one solid rock has been hurled by a five-year-old. Explains Hanna Wurmser, 17, vice president of Munich's Hot Club: "Those are our voices. In Germany all the elders work, work, work. Makes it kind of lonely for us. But there's always Presley and Wild Bill Haley...
Investors' optimism was based on facts. The synthetics market has fluffed up in recent months (see chart). In cottons, a fresh burst of heavy orders has many mills booked solid through the first quarter, is bound to turn sales curves upward beginning this month. The price of the industry's bellwether grade of unfinished cloth has climbed well above April's 12-year low, has advanced 7% in recent weeks. Prices have jumped as much as 12% for industrial textiles used in such things as cars and shoes...
...preliminary contest, the Amherst freshmen defeated the Yardlings, 71 to 56, in a fast and often sloppy game. Gary Borchard was outstanding in a losing cause, scoring 21 points and doing a solid job on both boards