Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
These were dreams of the Marshal. From the historic, beloved seat of French Government, with hundreds of thousands of war-separated families happily reunited, he might much more effectively sell his totalitarian ideas to the French people. But the solid figure of Ambassador Leahy was a constant reminder that the Allies would greatly disapprove, and might, after all, win the war. The Marshal had just shown that he was well aware of that possibility by giving a sheaf of assurances to the U.S. Government...
Speaking to the Conservative Party the same day, Winston Churchill had said: "I cannot allow, while I bear chief responsibility, a propaganda to disturb the Army, which is now so strong and solid, or to weaken the confidence of the country and the armed forces in the quality and character of our devoted corps of officers...
...West Virginian named Clair Bee took over basketball coaching at Brooklyn's Long Island University. L.I.U. basketball teams have always been excellent, sometimes terrific; they have won the Invitation Tournament twice and played two seasons undefeated. Bee's boys, with their tremendous local draw, have been a solid anchor to windward for Irish...
...Rzhev and Vyazma, as strong points. These "porcupines" were prepared against attack in any direction, building after building being turned into a small fort, with fortified "quills," such as farm buildings, scattered around all the approaches to the towns. The Germans concentrated on holding these porcupines rather than solid lines...