Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vainly, for a moment, in a tangle of baggage and bodies. Horses rolled from the embankment on top of them; while on either side of the breach the relentless canoes plied spears and clubs and arrows. A long-drawn scream rose from the water. . . . The causeway had become a solid writhing of agonized life fighting for itself...
...Liberal Party chose Grey North Riding, on the rocky shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, as the place where newcomer McNaughton could best be elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...
...Tyranny. Behind this shifting pattern of unrest were some solid political, economic and social facts. Central America, whose tyranny was older than Spanish rule, had been unsettled like the rest of the world by World War II. Before 1939, politically and economically, most of Central America had not yet entered the 20th Century. German and Ladino landowners raised coffee in the highlands, paid their peons as low as 20? a day, shipped much produce to Europe. U.S. fruit companies dominated the coastal jungles, paid peons higher wages but took them away again at company stores...
Joseph the Provider, by Thomas Mann, is the final volume of Mann's story of Joseph which tells in 2,005 pages what the Bible version tells in 21 pages. It contains Mann's usual solid, overlong discussions of history, religion and art, but its portraits of Pharaoh and Jacob are characterizations that the great novelist has never excelled...
...press conference last week Eleanor Roosevelt, like thousands of other parents and teachers, viewed this phenomenon with alarm. The Journal of Educational Sociology devotes an entire issue to calm examination of it, offers panicky parents and teachers some solid reassurance...