Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson's big farm push seemed to be winning back only Missouri (where his prospects look good) and Oklahoma (where he. appears to have a decided edge), along with a chance for Minnesota. Given those three and the South (although Florida and border-state Kentucky cannot be considered solid for the Democrats), Stevenson would still fall considerably short of the necessary 266 electoral votes...
...Candidate Richard Nixon went back aboard his DC-6 after enduring the 92° heat in Phoenix, Ariz, last week, his face was flushed, his voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing...
Although Amherst is relatively unknown in soccer play this year, Munro is expecting to meet a solid team, well-versed in the fundamentals--a factor which decides many early-season matches. Confident from their first match, the co-champions of the Ivy League last year are in excellent physical shape and well-prepared for the Amherst match...
...bunch its scorers ahead of its more scattered opponents. But Crimson strategy will send two or three runners into an early lead, in an effort to force the Engineers to break up their grouping. Coach Bill McCurdy, taking advantage of his team's great depth, intends to form a solid group with his other runners, thus consolidating the varsity scoring punch...
...Marshes. The biggest waterway customer of all is the booming Gulf Coast oil industry, which last year shipped out some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their...