Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory of the cheering section lies a deep-rooted feeling that Harvard men deserve better seats than visiting females, and that anyone preferring to sit a girl should share the misery of her view of the game. Arguments that an all-male section cheers louder or presents a solid, threatening front to the opposition are also frequently used...
...Unbuttoned Coat. TIME'S Rome Bureau reported a parallel situation: "The Marshall Plan, a solid propaganda success, pinned the Italian Communists down to an excruciatingly painful issue. How could they ask the Italian people to trust them with the task of reconstruction when everybody knew that the only grain, coal and money that Italy could get had to come from...
...correct. But the United States and the Western democracies of Europe will fail to profit by the hard experiences they have undergone if they did not take every measure of prudent defensive preparation which is open to them. While taking all the necessary steps and above all maintaining a solid front, we should not, however, be hasty in abandoning our hope in the United Nations Organization. It may be that the Soviet Government and their Communist fifth columns in so many countries will, at some moment or other, quit the United Nations Organization. Then there would be what is called...
...Socialist Government-you may have heard of that-and I am leader of the Conservative Party in opposition to it-perhaps you have heard of that too. But I can tell you that there is no country in Europe which makes a firmer or more solid front against Soviet and Communist encroachment than Great Britain. There is no doubt whatever that the Government, and the overwhelming mass of the British people, at home and throughout our Commonwealth, if any great issue should arise affecting human freedom, would act with the United States in the same solidarity and fraternal intimacy which...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...