Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than doubtful whether the deluge will carry 26 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate to allow for the first right-of-the-aisle Congress since 1930. Certain facts must be dealt with--the South, except for heresy in Kentucky, will still be solid. The southwest, claims of insurgent Democrats withal, will string along with tears in its eyes. And the balance in the east will not be fundamentally altered. Joe Guffey seems to be the major Democratic loss in this area, whereas landslide Republican gains throughout New York, New Jersey and New England are based...
Massachusetts' stolid, solid Senator Leverett Saltonstall smelled something fishy last week, and it was not Boston...
...seat left vacant by the death of Richelieu-Vercheres' Pierre Cardin. There was one absentee (Communist M.P. Fred Rose, jailed in the spy trial). The Liberals claimed that they could count on 125 votes. But it was a hard political fact that the Liberals had a solid majority in the House only with the help of splinter groups and the CCF's 28 seats...
...Queen Elizabeth and accepted an opportunity to garner favorable publicity in the best American campaign tradition by taking a brief turn at the helm of the giant liner. At the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, Molotov was friendly and quite optimistic about its chances for solid accomplishments...
...ancestors swung from bough to bough until climatic changes shot the trees out from under them. But Dr. von Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...