Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before sunrise, the people of Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray...
British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
...Less solid still are the underpinnings of the correspondent on this page. His resources, apparently, are sufficient to cover all whims of the national economy. An idealist, he ignores his own self-interest, finding a knightly virtue in the act of suppressing evil, the evil of being a "have not." It is hardly necessary to point out the naivete of the economic reasoning of the writer, nor even the latent danger of such a social philosophy. However, he gives voice to one of the most common popular fallacies, that "scarcity is caused by under-production." Scarcity may be caused just...
...Herbert, Britain's playwrighting M.P., just couldn't miss. His new musical comedy Big Ben opened in London, and was a solid hit. Earlier the same night Herbert had told his family: "I think we're going to be burgled tonight." Another hit. Home from the theater, the Herberts found their apartment rifled of ration books, gas coupons, radio, clock, Mrs. Herbert's jewels, her leopard coat...
Everyday exhibited seven pieces from Wright's set. Its sturdiness won out against butter-fingered dishwashers; it was inexpensive - a 20-piece "starter set" sold for about $6; it "put away" compactly-cups could be piled on each other without tumbling over; the solid colors were interchangeable. Nearly fourteen million pieces have been sold since 1939, at the rate (since 1943) of $1.5 millions worth a year...