Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Escape. To Wolfgang Foges, 38, Future is a show window for a resourceful printing company known as "Adprint," which is backed by Britain's potent chemical firm, C. Tennant Sons & Co. Ltd. Tennant helped Foges get out of Vienna shortly before the Anschluss; he had already made a name as editor of a youth magazine at 17, a fashion magazine...
Said the American "cultural workers": "We want to share responsibility with you . . . Our enemies will see that our international solidarity for peace and democracy stands firm against their frantic writhing and thrashing. On this May Day we grip your hand...
Stone Wall. In turning down the C.I.O. steelworkers' demands for a third round of wage increases, the steelmakers had plenty of company. Last week several other major industries, including Chrysler, General Motors and General Electric, stood firm with the steelmen in refusing union third-round demands...
...acquaintances give him credit only for being more "clever" than his partner who went to jail, and his own son deserts him as soon as he is convinced of his father's guilt. His wife Kate, played by Mady Christians, seeks refuge from her husband's acts in the firm conviction that Larry is still alive, until his letter convinces her that she has no hope. Her characterization is a strong one, stronger than Robinson's, possibly because her scenes are less flossy than his and all of a piece--she does not have to make hypocrisy convincing. Burt Lancaster...
With classrooms definitely under permanent joint regimes, thoughts of some have turned to coeducational exams. Backers of the plan argue that similar exam conditions would equalize results; opponents, on the other hand, are firm in maintaining the value of segregation...