Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long proclaimed Americans incapable of combat under such conditions-while prudently allowing North Viet Nam to fight its "war of liberation." The Americans turned out to be tigers, all right-live ones. With courage and a cool professionalism that surprised friend and foe, U.S. troops stood fast and firm in South Viet Nam. In the waning months of 1965, they helped finally to stem the tide that had run so long with the Reds...
...details of an abortive coup d'état that aimed at the murder of Sékou and the overthrow of the regime. Chief local plotter: Mamadou (Petit) Touré, a distant cousin of the President who was fired last year from the directorship of a national textile firm for embezzlement. Last week Little Touré was rumored to be under sentence of death, along with two former government ministers, an army battalion commander and a slew of petty traders - all members, apparently, of an outfit known as PUNG (Parti de I' Unité Nationale de Guin...
...slur on my firm!" cried Herbert Hill. "We will get Mr. Wilson by the ears before long." It took more than a year, but Hill's Hardy Spicer, Ltd., car-parts manufacturing company in Birmingham, did at least get Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 49, by the tongue a bit. Wilson's counsel appeared in London's High Court of Justice to deliver a handsome apology from the Prime Minister after he was charged with "libeling and slandering" Hill during the 1964 general elections campaign by suggesting that the Hardy Spicer management had fomented...
Confusion and conflict over the choices for mayor and mans seemed apparent yesterday. William C. Maher, the only new member of the Council, placed Sullivan's name in nomination with a short but firm speech...
...Coop spokesman explained that a buyer had attempted to place an order for the "Six-Footer" line, but that the firm's salesman never came. After several attempts to contact the company, the Coop was forced to buy the scarves elsewhere in order to get them in time for fall, he said...