Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background" ache. During severe bouts, victims cannot shave, or even wash; they cannot brush their teeth or eat solid food...
Rich but jobless, Bob Evans borrowed Simon's technique, picked up companies with sound products but sagging profits, swiftly turned them into solid moneymakers. Among them: firms that make small gasoline engines, industrial fixtures, furniture (Widdecomb) and machines that paint white lines down the middle of roads. Having sold two firms last year "to get some money to play with," Evans decided to buy into A.M.C. because its stock was selling for only 60% of the company's net worth...
Cushioning the Jolt. They were, Small vernier rockets near each of the craft's three legs fired to stabilize the spacecraft in a base-down attitude. When the radar sensed that Surveyor was precisely 52 miles above the moon, it fired a powerful, solid-fuel retrorocket that slowed the craft from 5,840 m.p.h. to only 267 m.p.h. in 40 seconds...
...Angeles, a state-financed, tuition-free college with an enrollment of 20,000 students, the bulk of whom are Los Angeles commuters (the San Bernardino Freeway slashes along the edge of the campus). Described by both his parents as "a real plugger," Gary Wilson has earned a rock-solid B average and the nickname "Old Reliable Wilson" for his industrious work as president and treasurer of Theta Chi fraternity and member of the Cal State interfraternity council, the college student disciplinary board and the Blue Key honorary society. Last week he was elected one of the school...
According to Ansara, the group does not actively solicit its membership, but instead concentrates on building a "solid base of educated members." As he explains, "students usually start out on one issue. They think the war is bad, or poverty is bad. But once in SDS, there occurs this broadening of their perceptions and their commitments." Consistent with their emphasis on decision-making, they begin to ask "who runs things," while at the same time developing a commitment to "direct action" to solve specific problems...