Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize that in any organization as large as Quonset there are bound to be a number of misfits and malcontents, people who would be dissatisfied or critical of any authority. It is my firm conviction that at least 98% of both service and civilian personnel in the Quonset area are behind their commanding officer 100% and feel that he has been done a tremendous and undeserved injustice...
...illness made a vacancy at the New York Palace, vaudeville's top spot, where he had played with Elizabeth several times. An agent booked Milton at $750 a week and discreetly vanished on a cruise. But Milton "fractured 'em," ran for seven weeks and won a firm hold as a headliner...
Once inclined to go overboard on horse bets, he tries to hew to a pocket-money allowance of $125 doled out weekly by a Wall Street law firm, which receives his income, pays his bills, nourishes his annuities and tends to the dozen companies lumped under the name Milton Berle Enterprises, Inc. Among his interests: a machine tool company, a furniture factory, real estate, music publishing, a toy business, a producing company...
Newsman Shaplen spent 3½ years in Asia himself, and he has tried to translate its political conflicts into fiction. This leads him sometimes into story trouble; yet his people are no puppets, and his firm narrative skill makes what happens to them seem not only credible but inevitable...
...Russo-American relations are improving, that's great. But could this sudden outburst of brotherly love be somewhat influenced, perhaps, by the very firm stand of the Allies in Berlin, and by the extraordinary feat of the American air lift? It is a very common and tragic mistake to see in a change of tactics a change of strategy...