Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James R. Cluck, member of the law firm representing Seattle Air Charter, said a C.A.A. summary of the conversation between the tower and the plane ended with the tower's statement...
...Firm Resolve. In the year 1948-a fitful year in a nervous century-historians could record that a mass of U.S. intentions, promises and pledges had hardened into resolve and action. In 1948, the world's greatest nation of free men finally resolved to meet Communism's deadly challenge with every weapon of peace that it possessed; and if the struggle against Communism required war, the U.S. would fight...
...slender Emperor believed, as an old Etonian should, in the classics in the classroom and pluck on the playing fields. During World War II he stood firm against parents who suggested that Eton should be moved to a place more remote from enemy bombs. If London's poor could not move from London, said the Emperor, Etonians would not move from Eton. Later, some bombs did fall, barely missing a library full of boys. But Eton did not move...
Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
George Henry Thomas was born on a Virginia plantation, attended West Point more or less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...