Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Further to your story on Scarfe [July 15], I should like to point out that Gerald Scarfe's People has just been published by my firm in London, and will appear in the U.S. this fall. It may be of interest to your readers that I commissioned the book from Scarfe three years ago, when he was virtually unknown...
...tell you. Only the men in Hanoi can give you that answer. We are fighting a war of determination. It may last a long time." Addressing Hanoi, he declared: "Victory for your armies is impossible. You cannot drive us from South Viet Nam by force. Do not mistake our firm stand for false optimism; as long as you persist in aggression, we are going to resist...
...follow. As the campaign began, he made it clear that he was his own favorite candidate. To improve his image he shed one of his wives, toned down his mercurial ways, and surrounded himself with topnotch advisers. Over the months, he went on to build a reputation as a firm-minded reformer by cleaning up the Communist-run tin union and creating a rare political stability...
...octagonal bean pit in Chicago's Board of Trade, hundreds of beige-jacketed traders snouted and jabbed out hand signals to make their trades. Amid the pandemonium, messengers dashed about picking up written confirmations. In the offices of the commission houses, clerks clocked up overtime hours; at one firm they slept only three hours in three days...
...will be in a more powerful position to bid for blockbusting authors, whose contracts have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. In combination, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books will be better able to assure authors of bonuses for softback reprint rights, while the publishing firm will be able to get those rights without paying fat fees to its hardback competitors...