Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's general agreement that we have to stand firm...
Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee: "Within the Senate, there is solid support for standing firm in Viet Nam. Within the group, there are a great many regrets that we are in there. But we are in there. Our flag is committed. Our boys are committed. We've got to back them up. We would invite much more serious trouble elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world if we set a precedent in being pushed out. I regret that we got in there. And I regret the extent to which we have become committed-particularly...
...question of whether we should have gone in there in the first place is subject to debate. The situation that confronts us now is not de batable. We have a commitment. Our men are engaged. The Administration, with the backing of Congress, has stated the policy. It's firm. It's fixed. It does us all well to support it unequivocally. By and large, the great majority of the Senate-with very few, very, very few exceptions-supports the President in his position...
...Teletype machine, so familiar a fixture in the newsroom, may soon invade the American home. Bulletins, weather reports, stock quotations, feature stories-all the 24-hours-a-day stream of news is being made available for community antenna television systems by Telemation, Inc., a small Salt Lake City electronics firm...
Their stature is likely to grow even more. Heidrick and Struggles, a Chicago-based recruiting firm, has just reported after a nationwide survey that demand for executives reached an alltime high in the second quarter of 1965, when some 12,500 executive openings existed in the U.S., 85% more than in 1964's second quarter...