Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence. She had a ferocious and exacting belief in herself. And she had an almost pathological need for continuous hard work. Envious inferiors called her Ca-Reer Garson...
Matters of Belief. These things could be reasonably deduced...
...know that like the Americans of German descent, the overwhelming majority of Americans of Japanese origin are wholly loyal to the United States. . . . It does not make for loyalty to be constantly under suspicion when grounds for suspicion are absent. I have too great a belief in the sanctity of American citizenship to want to see these Americans of Japanese descent penalized and alienated through blind prejudice. I want to see them given a square deal...
...U.S.A.? Conceivably a federated Continent, based on a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, could live in peace with itself and be no menace to anyone who refrained from attacking it. The grand crusade carried on by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi ever since Versailles has been motivated by the belief that a united Europe need be no menace either to Britain on the west or Soviet Russia on the east. The Count has only to look into his own heart-or his own lineage-to know that nationalism is, as he says, "an incurable disease." His mother was an ivory-skinned...
...soldier should get rid of his shame of fear, concentrate in battle on his task. Fear must be replaced by other forces. Of these, the Lincoln Brigade veterans rated "belief in war aims" highest (77%), with leadership (49%), training (45%) a materiel (42%) also important. Regimental pride had a great power against fear. Only 3% felt that belonging to an outfit which had made a name for itself "had no effect" on them...