Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt encouraged. Despite the brassy threats of organized labor, no one with a chance of outselling him had yet appeared. The Democrats' popular Governor Frank Lausche had already all but taken himself out of the race. Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the only other Democrat with a solid chance of beating Taft, was showing a marked reluctance to get into the fight. Taft felt so encouraged that he remarked to a friend: "I feel too good too early...
...express from Shanghai clanked to a stop in Peiping's Chien Men station. Waiting on the platform was a solid array of Communist bigwigs-Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Commander in Chief Chu Teh, foreign affairs expert, Chou Enlai, a score of lesser party bosses and assorted "democratic personages." From the train into this welcoming group stepped dignified little Madame Sun Yatsen...
Many others will agree, I'm sure, with the idea that as long as the evolution progresses from the solid body to the space between the eye and the object, and from there to the back of the mind, the next step after modern art will be taken by a man with a hole in his head...
Forged Documents. Author Howe himself served in an OSS detachment doing intelligence work with G2, Seventh Army. For this reason, perhaps, his story has an air of solid authenticity when he writes of the training of agents, the forged documents, the mistakes and casualties. He is less successful when he analyzes the motives of Happy and Tiger in betraying their country...
...cool off. Although the Cardinals have the best of the schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...