Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was Viet Nam. Though Cavanagh vaguely supported the Johnson Administration's policies, an image of the dove fluttered above him after he advocated a cease-fire and the creation of a buffer state between North and South. Williams, also generally supporting the President's policy, more firmly urged "a firm military defense and an imaginative peace effort...
Whether Whitman slept at all during the following few hours is not known. He was next seen at 7:15 a.m. when he rented a mover's dolly from an Austin firm. Then, deciding that he needed even more firepower, he went to Sears, Roebuck and bought a 12-gauge shotgun on credit, sawed off both barrel and stock. He visited Davis Hardware to buy a .30-cal. carbine. And at Chuck's Gun Shop, he bought some 30-shot magazines for the new carbine. All told, he had perhaps 700 rounds...
With a severe economic problem, with over-population, 14 different languages, and diverse religions, India has managed to establish a firm Democracy against all the Western prerequisites for freedom, Sivasithamparam said. "In the beginning there were skeptics who insisted that our Democratic government was held together by a charismatic leader, Ghandi, but India has proved time and again with Nehru, Shastri, and Mrs. Ghandi that it will continue to find great leaders a-plenty," he noted...
...handle competing brands. Grundig thus sewed up a $14 million share of the French consumer electronics market. Free from competition, Consten could sell Grundig products at markups as high as 50%-double what German retailers were getting. So sweet was the deal that in 1961, when another French firm started underselling Consten with Grundig wares bought from German wholesalers, outraged Consten officials charged it with unfair practices in a French court-to their later chagrin. Asked for an opinion on the case, the EEC in Brussels brushed aside bitter German protests, decided that the Grundig-Consten deal created "a monopoly...
First he said, the United States should withdraw its support from the Ky regime and insist that free elections be held in those parts of the country under firm government control. Any new civilian government, he declared, would immediately attempt to negotiate with the Viet Cong...