Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Thieves. The truck that Maude Smyth spotted belonged to N. M. Rothschild & Sons, a firm of merchant bankers. It was making routine deliveries of gold bullion to dealers about London when it stopped, as usual, to drop a bag of silver worth $14 at a small printing shop on Bowling Green Lane. As the guard who delivered the silver bag was walking back to his truck, he was hit from behind. Hearing the usual two-knock signal, his companions opened the roll-up door in the back. Instantly, their eyes were blinded by a liquid squirted from...
...surely one of the world's most extraordinary bestsellers. Written in 1933 by a Spanish priest named Jose-maria Escrivá, it consists of 999 aphorisms (sample: "Be firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then-be an angel!") that come so close to Dale Carnegie's exhortations that it might well be called How to Win Friends and Influence God. Yet The Way has sold more than 2,000,000 copies in 15 languages, including Tagalog and Swahili, and is now being translated into 15 other tongues. It is the only written credo of a rapidly expanding...
...public servants are more convinced of the worth of what they do than are university regents. California Regent William Forbes, president of a music firm, concedes that his service as a regent, which takes about 30% of his time, is the biggest thing in his life because "the hope of mankind lies in educating as many people as best...
...only time Haitink acts the part of a confident conductor is when he steps on the podium. Then he is all that might be expected of somebody who is regarded as one of the top younger figures in the field-firm, precise, sensitive, adept at molding the rich chiaroscuro of the Concertgebouw sound without blurring the melodies or jostling the rhythms. Under his baton, the orchestra is not yet burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts...
...huge role that government has played in Taiwan's economic upsurge, C. K. Yen is a firm believer in private enterprise. Thus in the past five years, the government's share of total industrial output has dropped from...