Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had abused their historic function as guiding intelligence of the German people by subjecting it to that evil thing-Nazi totalitarianism. The Frankenstein they had helped to power, their police spy in the absurd trench coat, Adolf Hitler, had at last split their solid ranks...
Pollster George Gallup paused in his state-by-state sampling of the Roosevelt-Dewey chances to add up his totals to date: Roosevelt, 139 electoral votes; Dewey, 138. Gallup gave the Solid South, Massachusetts, California and Washington to Roosevelt; New York, Oregon and the Midwest (Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana) to Dewey...
Observers of the German collapse were also beginning to believe that there was no hard German line of defense to guard the roads to Paris. The U.S. tank columns found the propagandized Rommel Line thin and brittle: there seemed to be no fixed line of solid defenses west of the Maginot and Siegfried forts...
...Solid Food. In Big Sandy, Mont., A. H. Olson appeared with a dead rattle snake and a story. The snake, he explained, swallowed a mouse. Then the mouse killed the snake by biting a hole in its throat...
...rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back to it to rest,, after a long circle of pilgrimage-the cradle of rest from which their ancestors started...