Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good many people a good many names, joyfully hailed a decision by Maryland's Judge Edward S. Delaplaine that it was not a crime to call a man a screwball. Cried the News: "Hereafter, if a rude neighbor or stranger gives you a dirty look, and declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead...
...week's end, though Madame Chiang had a promise from Harry Truman that he would see her, there was no official indication that the Administration had budged from its belief that there was almost nothing it could do to help China...
Friedrich, the author of "The New Belief in the Common Man", has entitled his talk "Man, Superman, and Common...
They're trying to outscore their opponents," he explained. "That's my belief of how college boxing should be handled. If treated like that, it is a fine sport--a fine game...
...with dispatch. Four days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband. Released without bond, she fled terror-stricken into the woods, shivered all night...