Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geographical limitation factor became clearly invalid. But the Commission's recommendation that Jewish immigration be resumed and unhampered Jewish land purchases be permitted ran into a solid wall of Arab resistance. The Arabs insisted that the Jews would soon outnumber them, control the land, and then be in a position to claim all of Palestine as their own. They backed up their argument with threats, and the British, perhaps overestimating Arab capacity to cause trouble, backed down, stating that the additional British troops necessary to carry out large scale immigration made the plan unworkable from an Empire viewpoint...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
...need for a religious core: "The moral tradition of our society is quite obviously shattered. . . . Some of the schools [like St. Paul's] are going to continue to be frankly church schools, religious schools, which believe that the one solid foundation for morality is religious faith...
...ambitious series is for children from five to nine - who spend most of their time asking "Why, Daddy?" The records will give the right answer to 25 perennial posers such as "Why are bees so busy?" "Why do I have to go to sleep?" Goldberg's formula: mixing solid fact, harmless fiction and sound effects. Sample (from Graphic's What Makes Rain...
Through it all, the larger cities in the state remain Democratic. The metropolitan machines, like Curley's in Boston, return a vote as solid as Mississippi's, with methods considerably more subtle. Some urban Congressional districts haven't gone Republican since the turn of the century; others couldn't go Democratic without either electoral revolution or mass migration...