Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follows in the official footsteps of other aloof, juridical Secretaries: John Hay, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, and like them has had extensive experience and a firm grasp...
Acheson could take it. He went back to his law firm...
...Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live cub to hounds. It is well known that...
...Dominican radio station Voz Dominicana has always had a big Haitian audience for its 8 o'clock Spanish music broadcast. One night last week, the station changed the program without notice. Instead of Spanish rhythms, startled Haitians heard a bland, firm voice calling for the overthrow of "that bloodthirsty, dishonest, cowardly assassin," Haitian President Dumarsais Estim...
...Proust submitted the first part of Remembrance of Things Past to a firm of which André Gide was a member. Gide turned it down. Later, after Proust had published it at his own expense, Gide wrote him that "the rejection of this book will remain . . . one of the most poignantly remorseful regrets of my life . . ." With infinite grace Proust replied: "Had there been no rejection ... I should never have had your letter...