Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concludes FORTUNE: "The U. S. desire to remain at peace does not. . . seem to be accompanied by a firm conviction that we shall properly be able to keep...
...Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace...
...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...
During the week, these units were reported active in the surroundings of Saarbrucken, the capture of some 200 sq. mi. including part of the right bank of the strategic Saar River (tributary of the Moselle), but they did not yet go up against the firm ramparts of the Westwall. It was unlikely they would do so before the French artillery-ponderous 155-mm. howitzers lobbing shells from far behind; flat-shooting 755 moving up into the cleared area-have pounded at the Wall forts for many days. The concrete fortresses of the Maginot Line are 150 ft. deep in some...
...made this alternative the more pleasant and probable prospect to most Japanese. They already had a characteristic phrase for Europe's war-"Divine Gale" to blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite, more firm -an ultimatum to Britain and France...