Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most enjoyable visit with the President. It is my belief that he will run for a third term...
Obviously, Bill Dailey came back-with one wound, a .45 caliber slug in the face, suffered in training in Kentucky, and a confirmed belief that nothing quite equalled the satisfaction of riding and caring for your own motorcycle. About a year ago he turned up at TIME with his machine, a recommendation from the Associated Press, and a conviction that it was time we hired a motorcycle courier. Our editors, recalling the days when copy boys disappeared for hours on their way to trains and planes with editorial copy and pictures, were skeptical. Dailey talked himself into a job, however...
...Stryker quotes endlessly from Erskine's speeches, revels in his courtroom technique, lectures the reader gleefully in little asides on the art of pleading. Sample: "[The lawyer] must do the jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many of his readers in flight long before they finish For the Defense...
...This belief in the individual is in our blood. It is our most fundamental characteristic. It gives a certain typical disorderliness to our behavior which baffles some foreign observers...
...Morrison's belief that Christianity is responsible for the character of civilization also prompted him to apply Christian principles to the whole area of current events. The Century, at various times, campaigned for the League of Nations, for prohibition, for NRA, for the rights of labor. Sometimes it campaigned itself into positions that many readers thought untenable (e.g., attempting to be both crusading and pacifist in support of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Century naively hoped that a pact to "outlaw" war could, in fact, outlaw it). But the Century's alertness, firmly backed by the principles...