Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Come Again." When the British bombers converged on Billancourt from various directions last week, they encountered no defense except spotty machine-gun fire from the ground. Wave on close-packed wave of bombers plastered the Renault plant and the two smaller works for two solid hours. Some planes were so low when they delivered their loads that they caught a few splinters from their own bombs; even the heavy bombers were just out of machine-gun range. The bombardiers could see factory buildings falling apart "like houses of cards." They dropped leaflets saying to the French workers of Billancourt...
...still possible. One early Monday morning, for instance, the certitude develops among the mill hands that the days of the week are stuck, and it is still Sunday, a sinful day to work. Almost a week passes before Sam's acquaintance, the King (who talks a Yorkshire solid as cheese), helps straighten things...
...Japs were coming to the Harmonic Club in Batavia, to the sumptuous Grand Hotel Preanger in Bandung, to the Navy Club in Surabaya, where Conrad Helfrich had passed many solid Dutch afternoons in drink and talk. They were coming to the tin mines, the oil wells, the rice sawahs, the cinchona groves, the rubber plantations where for money and empire many a Dutchman had sweated out his life. To Conrad Helfrich, as to all true colonial Dutchmen, these islands were home in a sense that Holland never could be. Now Hitler had Holland, and the Indies was their only home...
...very seriously. He never excelled at anything except at working hard. He got good grades, but he never won prizes. He sailed small boats, but never won races. The other cadets seldom saw him lounging about the streets, loafing amid the yellow buildings at Den Helder. He was a solid character, even to look at from behind, with his broad Dutch bottom, below the high, blue, single-breasted jackets the cadets wore. They and their instructors considered Conrad Helfrich a sound man; they felt in him a force that marked him for something more than a naval drudge...
This brief fantasy is keyed to a novel background score performed by a 50-piece symphony orchestra, to some Grade-A Negro choraling of Short'nin' Bread and Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, and to some very solid jive. The result is a colorful, intriguing, three-dimensional cartoon whose smooth animation is the result of a considerable and clever technique...