Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stand Firm...
...Army notified Uruguay's agents that the bidding time had been extended until 5. After failing to contact Montevideo, the agents held off further bids. At 5:20, they were shocked to hear that the lowest bidder, with a last minute offer of $27.55, was an Argentine firm. When they again lowered their bid to $27.50 the next morning, the Uruguayans were told that the contract had been awarded...
Said Chile's Rafael Irarrazaval Correa, heir to the title of Conde de la Conquista and general manager of a Santiago ready-to-wear firm named Vestex: "I'm a citizen of a democratic nation . . . Don't kid me, please...
White-haired Judge Albert Reeves, 75, mounted the bench, and the crowded courtroom was hushed. "The defendant will rise," intoned the marshal. "What say you, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, as to count one [espionage]?" In a firm voice the foreman replied: "Guilty." And to count two [stealing government documents]? "Guilty." Judy sank back, chin in hands, no longer the "simple little girl in love" that Archie Palmer called her, but the convicted spy with "the agile little Swiss-watch mind," as the prosecution called her-a trusted employee who had used her job in the Department of Justice...
Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin from 1931 to 1938, is one of those surprisingly numerous Frenchmen who want Germany as a good neighbor rather than as a chained foe. He has written: "With a little imagination, a little courage and good will, the problem of Germany can be solved...