Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poll taxes were originally a great forward-looking democratic experiment, a liberalization of laws giving the vote only to property owners. But after the Civil War, the Solid South turned them to a new purpose: keeping Negroes and white trash away from the polls...
...Alaska coast, hit troubles of their own. The cats, seeking a roadbed, tore off the top moss, exposed sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang...
...sage love to the heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...
...useless, and no facilities have been arranged to take care of the tin cans. The University has made an agreement with local bottling companies whereby all its tin is being turned into bottle caps. Before the government will accept old tin cans the donators must have them pressed into solid packs to facilitate shipment...
...When Congress assembled: "There was nothing to be seen except the hard grey walls of the Capitol, bright and solid in the clear, pale noonday sun. . . . Yet the face of every individual, the faces of all those huddled over the radios, were turned directly toward the towering pillars of the Capitol. There was a churchlike hush, a sullen, angry silence. . . . What was the silence of shock last night, today was the cold, determined hatred of an outraged people. There was something of the tension of a lynching mob, a mob where there are no masks, where each individual is happy...