Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Articulate Man. Jimmy Gardiner is as practical as politicians come. In provincial and federal politics for over 30 years, he has never lost an election. Twice Premier of Saskatchewan, he still holds a firm grip on the provincial Liberal Party (although the socialist CCF rules his province). As Minister of Agriculture, he has played for the farmer vote, sponsored the British food contracts with their long-term price guarantees. He sometimes dictates 60 letters a day, most of them four-page crunchers well larded with facts. A staunch United Churchman, who neither smokes nor drinks, he makes a speech...
Born in Poland 43 years ago and educated in New York's public schools, Frieda Hennock bucked parental disapproval to study law. At 21 she became the youngest woman member of the New York State Bar. Later she joined the rock-ribbed Republican law firm of Choate, Mitchell & Ely, where she was the only woman lawyer and only Democrat. She has never married (although "I believe in marriage and I want the companionship of a wonderful...
Despite this news of plenty, grain markets held fairly firm. The Department of Agriculture, anxious to keep prices from sliding toward Government-support levels, had paved the way for its rosy estimates. Hinting that any increases in yields might well be absorbed by a broadening of the export program, it saw no reason for "radical downward adjustment in the prices of most crops...
Stomach Ulcers. Victims are aggressive, try to dominate other people, mold their environment to suit themselves. They are self-conscious and have strong likes and dislikes. Their eyes are sullen, their mouths firm; they have a "lean and hungry" look...
...sign; Mount Ammouda was stubbornly defended. On all fronts Greek troops had found Markos' mountains pocked with strong log emplacements and fortified caves like those the Japanese used in the Pacific war. Moreover, the rebels, instead of melting away under attack to pop up elsewhere, were standing firm. But the Greek army had captured peaks on both sides of Markos' stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying to find a soft spot in the guerrilla lines." The general...