Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won. We bypassed the tanks and bumped onward over the roadside trolley line, passing villas licking flames into...
Some 1,500 devotees thronged to hear it from all over northern California, from Los Angeles, even from the East. They raised the roof-but in a solid manner: they were no mere swarm of jitterbugs buzzing before the latest of the many swing band sensations. They were mostly seasoned jazz tasters who had gathered to sample vintage New Orleans music produced by a group of the Negroes who had been in that city when jazz was young...
WASHINGTON--John L. Lewis' hopes of by-passing the War Labor Board in the United Mine Workers' coal wage dispute by dealing directly with Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes were blasted tonight when Ickes notified him that the WLB must be the sole and final arbiter...
...peace and prosperity with their neighbors. These men will not sacrifice that principle for personal safety. Should others? I sometimes wonder if America's legislators, its labor leaders, its industrialists, its occasional absentee defense workers, its sometimes selfishly pleasure-seeking civilians ever realize that . . . their maintenance of a solid fighting home front is as important a cog on the wheel of success as those facing the dive-bombers...
...Jefferson, Adams wrote to Rush: "I am bold to say I was his preceptor in politicks and taught him everything that has been good and solid in his whole political conduct." Three years later Adams was "shuddering" at "the calamities which I fear his conduct is preparing for his country...