Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked and angered-and with good reason. Thanks to his stand in Paris, capped by his Stuttgart speech (TIME, Sept. 16), he had almost begun to persuade the world that such a thing as a U.S. foreign policy exists, and that it is beginning to be both clear and firm: 1) play a strong hand in Europe, 2) check the spread of Russia's totalitarian ideology in Europe and Asia. And now a fellow Cabinet officer, apparently backed by the President, had blown the gaff: there was no U.S. foreign policy after all-just conflicting opinions...
People were beginning to call Henry Wallace's remarkable performance The Speech, in much the same way that they had called the atom bomb The Bomb. And, in its impulsive way, The Speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had done what it could to vaporize the firm U.S. foreign policy which Secretary of State Byrnes was at long last on the point of achieving. It also released a ripple of verbal radioactivity in the European press and, more guardedly, in European foreign offices and chancelleries...
...Operating at the start only on suspicion, U.S. investigators got their first firm lead from Frederick Arthur Savory-a great-grandson of U.S.-born Nathaniel Savory who colonized the Bonins in 1830-when he returned from exile in Japan bearing gruesome reports of executions and cannibalism...
...been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished it, is now gone; next month the spiral (called the "corkscrew" by some irreverent...
Blonde, British-born Iris Carpenter, thirtyish, BBC commentator and war correspondent (London Daily Herald, Boston Globe), says that she held firm, too. Although ready to grant from the start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...