Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pedro Leào Velloso, Brazil's Foreign Minister and head of its delegation, baldly declared that a prime purpose of the conference was to line up "a solid bloc of votes" for the forthcoming world security conference in San Francisco. Alarmed shushes greeted this un-bagging of an unseemly cat, which was all the more noticeable since Minister Velloso had flown up from Rio with U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius...
...Having taken one step forward by its admirable example, the Georgia Legislature now took two steps back. Up rose grey-haired Senator Roy McGinty to propose that Negroes be permitted to vote in Democratic primaries. The Senate listened politely. When the vote came, down went McGinty in a solid chorus...
...Could Take It. For three solid days it took the worst that Blandy could give it, and it gave back. On the fourth day new battleships added their 16-in. salvos to the big-gun chorus; big carriers sent in more planes. Iwo absorbed more than 7,000 tons of shells plus untold tons of bombs-a record for a Pacific island...
...Elster, Nazi commandant of southwestern France, with 20,000 enemy troops. After it captured Brest, the Ninth disappeared from the public eye, and apparently from the German eye as well, until it slammed into action north of Aachen. In the grinding progress toward the Roer, it got its first solid battle experience...
General Charles de Gaulle's cordial mission to Moscow (TIME, Dec. 18) has been paying off ever since, especially in the powerful French Communist Party's solid support of the Government. Last week it paid off again...