Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messersmith, who has the career diplomat's predilection for the gloved hand, liked this approach to his new job. He had gone to Buenos Aires with the firm conviction that the speechmaking, note-writing tactics of Spruille Braden must end; that the patching-up job, if it could be done at all, must be done behind the scenes. In this he was privately seconded by Secretary of State Byrnes...
Thus far the Labor Party had not lost a seat in 23 by-elections although its majorities had been reduced. Not since 1874-75 when Disraeli's Government went 16 months without losing a seat, had any British Government held so firm...
YOUR DEFINITION OF THE MAN OF THE YEAR IS "THE MAN WHO HAD THE BIGGEST RISE TO FAME DURING THE YEAR AND WHO MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE CHANGED THE NEWS FOR BETTER OR WORSE." I ... SUGGEST SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES F. BYRNES. BY SPEARHEADING A FIRM AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DIPLOMATIC GATHERINGS OF 1946 HE HAS UNQUESTIONABLY CHANGED WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GLOBAL BAD NEWS DEFINITELY FOR THE BETTER...
...which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive, constructive U.S. world leadership. TIME reports and interprets the news of U.S.-Russian relations in the light of these convictions...
Murray described the CIO role in last winter's wage disputes as "magnificent," and said "The firm unity within the CIO will result in the same success in the coming months as we achieved during the past winter...