Word: solider
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...solid achievements in plays and movies and on television, Richardson was first, and unfairly, thought of as Redgrave's daughter. Although she was not blessed with Redgrave's white-hot, almost alarming incandescence - that grand stature mixed with a girlish vulnerability - Richardson had her own gifts. Her public presence was spikier, more knowing and skeptical; she seemed not so much ageless as modern, less questing than questioning. She could locate the befuddlement of a brainwashed heiress (in the movie Patty Hearst), the crassness of an old-time good-time girl (as Sally Bowles, a Tony-winning turn...
...Geithner received solid backing from President Barack Obama on the South Lawn on Wednesday before the President left for California. "I have complete confidence in Tim Geithner and my entire economic team," Obama said. "Nobody is working harder than this guy. He is making all the right moves in terms of playing a bad hand...
...moving slowly - say 10 m.p.h. or slower - and they fall on soft snow, they're probably not going to be hurt severely, whether they're wearing a helmet or not. If they're moving faster than 15 or 20 m.p.h. and strike ice, hard-packed snow or another solid object with the head, they're likely to suffer severe injury, and again the presence of a helmet may not make much difference. It's in the middle area - at speeds that are neither very slow nor very fast - that a helmet can play the biggest role. The trick, of course...
...error committed by MIT allowed Harvard to take the first set with a solid...
...that, after winning more votes than any presidential candidate before him and having the largest Democratic congressional majorities in a generation (which are even larger when you consider that they do not include the “solid South” conservative Democrats of old), Barack Obama and his administration still lack sufficient votes just to bring urgently necessary—not to mention popular—legislation to a vote...