Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for clearing the mystery of the missing Mr. Hollenbeck, sometime newscaster for WJZ [TIME, Aug. 26]. If Radio should have a Man of the Year, he has one solid family vote on two counts: superior presentation of the news; and the long-suppressed blurt against noxious commercials, which apparently cost him that...
...encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
...cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...subconscious through random talk and dreams. Eventually his repressed fears and feelings of guilt are supposed to come to the surface. Exposure of the hidden difficulty to the patient helps him find a remedy and relieves him of his anxiety and physical symptoms of illness. There are no solid statistics on "cures." Reasons: 1) the only judges are the analyst and his patient; 2) no two analysts agree on a definition of what is "normal" in the first place...
...Afield he showed a minor talent, too. His aim was erratic and he had to be moved from shortstop to second base for the easier peg to first. All he seemed to have was dazzling speed on the bases and a modest, earnest attitude that quickly put him in solid with his white Montreal teammates...