Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France it was the biggest week since liberation. Abroad, General Charles de Gaulle's Government prepared to assume a full role in world affairs (see above). At home, it took its first firm step toward parliamentary administration...
...Last week the interdepartmental Executive Committee on Foreign Economic Policy, headed by Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, completed three years' work on cartels. Result: a recommendation that the Government take a firm stand against "restrictive" international agreements of all kinds, except: 1) for purposes of national defense; 2) to conserve scarce and vital commodities; 3) in cases involving public health and morals, such as narcotics; 4) in cases of acute crisis...
...chronicle of a Norwegian-American family in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Mama is unfolded retrospectively (from a corner of the stage) by daughter Katrin, now a successful writer. The kitchen-for-parlor home life that Katrin looks back on is dominated by firm, frugal, warmhearted Mama (extremely well played by Mady Christians) who, to give her children a feeling of security, pretends that the family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories...
Meanwhile, with the exception of the Daily Herald, the Daily Mirror and the Yorkshire Post, Britain's newspapers had to rely on news-agency coverage or ignore the convention altogether. But T.U.C. held firm. Said its shrewd general secretary, Sir Walter Citrine: "It is quite clear that an attempted boycott is in operation. . . . Freedom of the press is interpreted by those newspapers as Freedom to Suppress...
...Queen's College, Oxford, he rejected religion, acquired a low opinion of women, and in a vituperative poem denounced Nature as an "abhorrent harpy." Then he returned to "Dowson's" and became the firm's bookkeeper...