Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes in her closet, quit her $32-a-week war job at the R.C.A. plant. A beauty operator before the war, she now took a $20-a-week job in Paul's Beauty Shop on East Michigan Street. Said Juanita: "I just figured I wanted to have something solid to stand on after the war, something that won't blow up overnight...
They had knocked the Germans off balance with a solid armored punch, had chewed up the best part of six divisions and had at least two others backtracking. Best of all, they were on the move, and they moved with dash and boldness, with a murderous air support that made hash of German units on the roads...
...Actually Admiral Halsey is only 61, Admiral King 65. General Marshall 63. * Byrd's vote: the solid delegations of Virginia (24), Louisiana (22), and Mississippi (20); also scattered votes from Texas (12), Florida (4), South Carolina (3½), Alabama (2), West Virginia (1), New York (½). † In 1940 the President promised: "When [the next] term is over, there will be another President...
Scene III: the Sherman. The Wallace camp set to work in earnest. Their pre-convention count of solid, first-ballot votes had stood at 200. By Wednesday morning it rocketed to 350. All day long delegates streamed in & out of P.A.C.'s Sherman Hotel headquarters...
...muttered: "Bandits! Murderers! Killers!" Once a woman screamed: "Give me back my daughter! Give me back my daughter!" The crowd hushed her. For the most part, the gauntlet the Germans ran was a silent one. But it was a gauntlet: the hatred in the air was almost a solid...