Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference was made to the small band of Christians who are courageously opposing the government and its immoral policies. Many of them have been penalized for their stand against its un-Christian methods. However, their witness is often undermined by the churches, which are afraid to take a firm stand for fear of loss of status. There are thousands of accusing fingers pointing at us, of the countless starving, the ones in jail, those banned, and especially those who in frustration and bitterness have left the church, because of our compromise...
...Atlanta, Police Chief Herbert Jenkins dubbed S.N.C.C. the "Nonstudent Violent Committee," and similar sentiments echoed throughout the Negro civil rights movement. "It is still my firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and self-defeating," lamented Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta's Negro leaders were more outspoken; they adopted a resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire...
...demands to assure her independence: she would continue to call herself Margaret Sanger, she and Slee would occupy separate apartments in the same house, they would even telephone each other to arrange such trifles as having dinner together. Not much of a marriage by conventional standards, but it held firm...
Roughly half of this considerable market last week came under the control of a single firm, Source Perrier. Perrier (280 million bottles annually), which had already acquired Contrexéville (300 million), and sells seven smaller brands, announced the acquisition of the Compagnie Fermière de Vichy (250 million). Gurgled Perrier Chairman Gustave Leven: "We have become the biggest mineral-water firm in the world...
...Houston's Ernest M. Hall Jr. headed Hall-Sears Inc., an obscure electronics outfit with earnings of $10,781 on gross sales of $95,000. Three years later, Hall merged with a small uranium mining company and became president of the new firm, now known as Westec; its share sold for 4¼ on the American Stock Exchange. For the first half of 1966, Westec announced earnings of $5,345,567 on sales of $31,-693,395; the company's stock soared to a high of 67⅛ in April...