Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Dodd's "Stand Firm" policy against the Russians has reduced the mealy-mouthings of Fulbright to a "tale . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Rock. Near Tallahassee, Fla., members of the Pisgah Methodist Church listened to a sermon titled "Build Your Church on a Firm Foundation," then crawled under the building to get folding tables for a church dinner, found a 250-gallon cache of moonshine whisky...
...Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more harm than good. In 1959 the U.S. moves toward the summit with more modest hopes. The chances of any harm's being done are therefore correspondingly less-for as long as the free world stands firm on first principles...
...East Berlin, a Socialist from West Berlin made a violently anti-Communist speech last week. "The U.S.S.R. has not given up its hope to rule the world," said Socialist Deputy Chairman Josef Braun. "The occupation rights of our Western friends in Berlin are our only protection. We must remain firm." An owlish man in the audience rose to criticize West Germany's Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer for talking to Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago. "It's wrong to go hat in hand to aggressors," agreed another man. "The Russians pursue their ends with absolute brutality...
Tucker, however, said he felt that a standardized menu would greatly facilitate operations. He pointed out that the proposal was first made by an outside management-consulting firm last year. "It would co-ordinate and consolidate the ordering so that instead of spot buying three times a week we would get bids for larger quantities," Tucker explained...