Word: solider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid majority of 43 seats in the 635-member House of Commons,* and Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first to lead a major Western nation...
...only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know, and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human...
Despite the 8-1 score the rest of the Harvard squad played solid tennis. Dan Pompan stayed closer to nationally-ranked Jay Lapidus than the 6-2, 6-3 score indicates, dropping several 3-3 points, including a number of chances to break the Tiger star's serve...
...result, the components of his game, while not yet at the level of an All-American, are all solid. The Southern California staple a big forehand remains his most lethal weapon, but he has improved other aspects of his game to the point where he has no weaknesses...
...annuals of tennis teem, though, with players who have solid games, all the shots even, sometimes one outstanding weapon- but fizzle in the heat of competition...