Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christopher really helped your "devoted rocketmen" get the Vanguard into orbit [March 21], why don't we invite Bishop Sheen (or Billy Graham) down to Cape Canaveral to give our new satellites an extra boost? Solid fuels? Bah! All we will need is prayer and a skyhook...
...others did boggle. Nationalist China called it the first step toward full diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Peking, and retaliated by slapping a boycott on Japanese goods, thereby trying to force Japan to choose between the chancy Red barter deal and its solid trade with Formosa ($149 million last year). And so began the battle of the flag...
...moon. A bat whirred by invisibly, black against black. The football green, solid and trustworthy in the daylight, was a black hole now. At the edge of it a small, skinny boy stood staring big-eyed into the darkness. A tree creaked in the night wind. The boy looked wildly over his shoulder. He almost wished that somebody had noticed him slip out, but people hardly ever noticed little Alec. "Come on, Guinness!" he told himself between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry...
...hard to tell what Christopher Fry's The Firstborn is about. The overall impression is of far-of solid stone-hewn figures in a somehow intensely pregnant atmosphere, speaking heavily, as from a tomb...
Hardly anyone on stage is fully human or alive, which may be the fault of Anthony Quayle's direction. As an actor with a grandiose voice, he himself can get away with a heavy, solid, nearly motionless style of acting, because his voice does most of the work. But no one else on stage, not even Katherine Cornell, who often visibly tries to compete with Quayle on a purely vocal, statuesque level, can get away with...