Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor of a war that you might have to fight," says one draftable pragmatist at Williams. And most students, if only by their immersion in humanities, suffer over the inhumanity of war. But the bulk of them also seem to find a higher order of responsibility in standing firm than they do in "packing up and going home...
...sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts." As a "plodding general practitioner," Bowman reports with tongue-in-cheek hyperbole that he learned many a practical lesson on his visit to this "arche typical" personal-injury firm. His account, of course, is fictional, but the American Bar Association Journal found it fascinating enough to print...
...business is on a contingent-fee basis," boomed the firm's senior partner, a highly spiced ham called "the Colonel." "We know that a bigger verdict is a bigger profit." Eager to share his arts, the Colonel proudly conducted a "tour of the plant...
Monday night the Council moved cautiously towards a change in position. It ordered that the three alternatives developed by the planners be forwarded for an opinion to the City's own private consultants, a Chicago planning firm...
...this reason that many African nationalists wanted UDI as much as the whites who took the plunge. Without UDI, the nationalists, bitterly feuding among themselves, seemed under the firm and indefinite control of the white government's efficient police and army. Britain, as sovereign, warded off the worst attacks in the Commonwealth and the United Nations. The perpetual prospect of fruitful negotiations forestalled any effective sanctions or ostracism which might make white Rhodesians hurt...