Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names with door prize cards and 200 people joined," Ritchie said happily. "We've got more meetings scheduled. We'll go national as soon as we're solid on the coast. Why, you're going to have ten million soldiers coming back from Japan all maimed and crippled and every one a missionary for this movement...
...antiaircraft fire, 20-and 40-mm., seemed a solid flame of tracer shells, converging on him from a cone formed by a hundred ships. When he was about half a mile away he caught fire, started to roll over. What looked like an engine or a large piece of engine flew out and ricocheted along the water. The plane hit the water. Chunks of plane sailed past our boat. A stream of flame shot past a hospital ship near by. Then the peril set in. Our own antiaircraft fragments started splashing around. I wished fervently that I had worn...
...Kenai peninsula. Wild game, including black and grizzly bears, abounds at the farm. A vein of coal lies offshore, and the tide washes up more than enough lumps for heating. The Buckners plan to return there to live. Said the General: "I expect it will take me a solid year to catch up with my hunting and fishing. And I'll be so far away from things I won't be able to exercise a retired general's prerogative of cussing and swearing that the new army has gone to hell since...
Underground. Whether or not there were to be heroics on high, it was clear that there was to be Naziism underground. Allied officials said they had solid evidence of a Nazi plan to carry on from secret arsenals and secret cells until the Allied coalition split and a new, triumphant Reich could arise. Other sources added details...
...overlooked in a year like 1945 is Cincinnati's Bill McKechnie-bossed Reds, who always turn up with good pitching. They still have 34-year-old Pitcher Bucky Walters and the league's top first baseman, Frank McCormick. The four Eastern clubs, which formed a solid second-division block in 1944, are filled with long ifs and forlorn buts. If Manager Mel Ott's aging legs hold out, if they get one pitcher to help 21-game winner Bill Voiselle, the New York Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power...