Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...
...pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...
...Dabney's talk has long plagued conservative Virginians. As editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he has tilted his pen at almost every Southern household god. He has offended the Solid South by urging its return to the two-party system. He has outraged the Baptist South by criticizing prohibition and fundamentalism. He incensed the cheap-labor South by leading a campaign which resulted in the shortening of the Virginia work week for women from 60 to 48 hours...
...next step is up to France's new Minister of Finance, René Pleven. Known better as a colonial administrator than financier, he nevertheless has a solid industrial background, the deft hand which will be needed in dealing with the public. And he has one sturdy prop: the U.S. army in France is, in effect, a huge tourist army. The U.S. Treasury now buys francs to pay these troops, supplements the francs with invasion currency, also redeemed by the U.S. Thus, France is building up its dollar credits at the rate of millions monthly. (In 1937, U.S. tourists spent...
...wife's-eye-view of the Puritan Revolution's dourest man and greatest poet, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. It is based on Marie's "secret diary" (which exists only in Author Graves's imagination), plus Graves's solid knowledge of Milton's life & times...