Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggle. Before him lay the intricate task of building a Cabinet before the Bundestag convenes on Oct. 19. It might not be easy, for the C.D.U., three seats short of an outright majority, inevitably needs Mende's Free Democrats once again for a coalition that could wield firm parliamentary control. Mende promptly staked out his claims: for himself, the vice-chancellorship and Ministry of All-German Affairs again, plus three other Cabinet posts for his party. Somehow, however, Erhard would have to reconcile Mende's demands with those of former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss. Strauss is chief...
...informed minds to bat it about. Jewish identity is about as original a topic as negritude, but David Levey and Yoran Ben-Porath manage to say original things about it. The other contributor, Andrew Grey-stoke, wanders aimlessly about the subject, finally admitting that he really has no firm position. Levey and Ben-Porath, conversely, attack the problem with the rigor and hard-nosedness of their chosen discipline, economics. Their articles display an impressive tightness, derived from a controlled tension between deep conviction and and an even deeper respect for logic and evidence...
...Folks. When the votes were in, enough antisocialists had registered their protests to give the coalition a ten-seat majority and firm control of the Storting for the next four years...
Self-Operation. Seeking to balance such conflicting demands while he struggled to establish his own style as Pope, Paul has created a record that so far shows as many hits as misses, as many half-starts as firm conclusions. He carried on John's interest in ecumenism, notably by his meeting in Jerusalem with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras. But he also disturbed Protestants by the "return to Rome" implications of his 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (His Church). One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo...
...front door by Mrs. Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges is vaguely aware that they are right...