Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English Department was firm in its resolve and would not spare the people. And they suffered mightily. And Morton sent a plague of horrible, unprepared lectures upon them, and they languished in pain all the days of the fall...
...assault and battery after an altercation with a hospital guard. Shea filed counter charges, and in December 1976 a court threw out the case. In addition, a state rate-setting commission ruled that Beth Israel had to return $19,000 in funds used to hire a Chicago management consulting firm which advised on ways to defeat the union...
Correspondent Lee Griggs met Kenyatta the day in 1961 that he came home in triumph to his village near Nairobi. Remembers Griggs: "In the crush of thousands I only managed a handshake and a few words, but I was instantly impressed. The handshake was firm and the eyes were almost blazing with determination." Griggs asked if he was bitter about his long detention in the desolate north of his country...
...wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service agents bobbed along near by in other rafts, and rotating teams of reporters trailed at a distance?but with firm orders to keep out of the President's sight. Indeed, as Carter cast off, he aimed his own 35-mm camera at a mob of photographers and joked: "This'll remind me of what I'm leaving...
...smile is winning, the grasp firm. Is that a future politician swaddled in those blankets? Well, Baby Jennie's Grandpa Nixon lived in the White House and so did her Great-Grandpa Eisenhower. But Jennie's parents, Julie and David Eisenhower aren't sending her on the hustings yet. As for Nixon's view of his granddaughter's future, he says: "There's only one area I'll try to influence her in. She'll be an Angels...