Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owners of looted stores for entrusting the ghetto to its own activists for 24 hours. But his decision may well have made the difference between confrontation and conflagration. On the other hand, Stokes might be faulted for not having taken more action to forestall trouble. Cleveland, fortuitously, had received solid warning from the FBI and its own intelligence sources that something was brewing. The only hitch was that the warning was for 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, half a day after the actual zero hour...
McCarthy's campaign is growing more professional. He has acquired new aides, notably former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, who has a solid working knowledge of convention politics. A rented Boeing 727 jet has replaced older planes that sometimes developed mechanical trouble. His speeches are studded with more specific proposals than previously. He talks in terms of giving the President emergency powers to deal with malnutrition among the poor, and has come out for an international arms-control plan that calls on the U.S. to take the first step unilaterally. He would have the U.S. halt deployment of new offensive...
...faces and conventional styles. He took his third-party candidacy on a six-day, 24-town swing through Massachusetts last week, drawing curious, generally friendly crowds of up to 3,000, despite ubiquitous hecklers. The latest Gallup poll showed that Wallace has steadily gained popularity not only in the Solid South but elsewhere in the country as well...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...
Lost Meaning. Employers were also sympathetic. A Wednesday holiday was tolerable-at least to the boss, who could count on two solid days of work before and after it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays were painful. Employees looked at him reproachfully if he did not throw in the extra Monday or Friday to make a full four-day holiday...