Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Smith's Catholicism, to the extent that it can be disentangled from the Prohibition issue, gained him more votes than it lost him. If he had been a Protestant and nonetheless Al Smith in all other respects, the South might have remained solid (though he would still have lost many Southern votes as a big-city wet). But a Protestant Smith could not have carried heavily Catholic Massachusetts or Rhode Island, or racked up a net plurality in the twelve biggest cities. It may be true that no Roman Catholic can get elected President...
...days later, last week. In a swift vote, powered by an overwhelming, 71-10-18 majority, the Senate passed the 1960 civil rights bill and sent it back to the House for, hopefully, quick agreement by a floor vote. When that happens, the civil rights bill, anchored with a solid voting-rights guarantee for the South's Negroes, will be on the books...
...policies with more consistent fervor than New Jersey's spare (5 ft.11½ in., 160 lbs.), studious Clifford Case, 56. Since he went to the Senate in 1955, Case has voted with the Administration 83.6% of the time. With this record Case has won a reputation as a solid-gold Modern Republican, but he has lost support of many Old Guard Republicans back in New Jersey. To oppose Case in next week's primary election , Old Guardists have put up a hard-campaigning right-winger: Robert Morris, 45, longtime lieutenant of the late Joe McCarthy, sometime...
...warheads designed for the Polaris and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, which the U.S. is depending upon to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s, pack a nuclear punch of about half a megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three or four megatons in the nose cone of the U.S.'s Atlas ICBM. With additional nuclear tests, the yield of the Polaris and Minuteman warheads could be significantly increased, although Admiral William Raborn Jr. has said he needs no further tests of the present Polaris warhead. Some U.S. scientists...
...last several years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...