Word: hardens
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...window of an ancient Chinese antique shoppe. Marx's very presence as a performer, and the natoriety of his unorthodox tone, had steeled many in the audience for an onslaught. As the first few notes burst from the bell of his oboe the remaining faces, already beginning to harden into that controlled boredom of the concert-goer's mask, registered something between discomfort and shock...
...harden his point, Blough went on to announce that U.S. Steel would forthwith trim 12% to 14% from the prices of some types of wire and rods. Reason: stiff competition from cut-price European producers, whose steel shipments to the U.S. will exceed 6,000,000 tons this year...
...saying has it that in Africa "there is no past, no future, only the present." For the time being, the present means ambition and anarchy, poverty and political intrigue. Upheaval will follow uhuru for some time to come. Slowly, gradually, economies will harden, a middle class will emerge, political activity will coalesce into forces that can be accommodated by democratic techniques. Then, and only then, will any African be safe...
...Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Untold millions of people agree. Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pahraoh's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah's Ark? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame...
...finding that it is a big turn from a space-age military product to an item for industry or the consumer. One major obstacle is that defense companies have neither the marketing nor the production facilities to switch over smoothly even to limited civilian goods. Such problems only harden the conviction in both industry and Government that the search must be pushed vigorously if the defense industry is to win the battle of change...