Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
...Army's Snow Institute for Flyers perfected a method of packing snow cover, more than three feet thick, firm enough to sustain airplanes and even railways...
...former Army mechanics who did not feel they could support their war brides on the salaries offered to them last week decided to risk their meager savings in a repair shop. Their motto: "We tackle anything." Principals in the firm: ex-Staff Sergeant Skeezix Wallet, and his friend Wilmer Bobble of Frank O. King's famed comic strip Gasoline Alley. In their first week, Wallet & Bobble spent most of their time repairing Christmas tree lights. Total take...
...still firm against fare fixing by I.A.T.A., had certainly won popular support. It had proved that free competition would bring lower fares than any I.A.T.A. devised cartel plan...
...insane, he was not evil, but his character was like the kind of car that will not hold to the road. . . . There are some who are always 15. John Amery continued ... to like automobiles ... as an adolescent does, and had as fresh and bounding an appreciation of the firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined...