Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned judges saw it, the issue was whether religious freedom was better preserved by upholding the freedom of non-Catholics from taxation for the benefit of another sect, or by upholding New Jersey in "extending its general state law benefits to all its citizens without regard to their religious belief...
This amendment cannot be intelligently supported by those who profess belief in the political good sense of the majority in times of decision. Those who do not share this faith in the people and majority rule are less than sincere in advocating this barrier to the free choice of candidates on the flimsy grounds of a tradition--indeed, a tradition repudiated twice in four years by the voters of the country...
...congressional investigators achieved nothing else, they were dramatizing one fact: a man can be a Communist, or a "totalitarian liberal" and call himself a good American-but he cannot expect his fellow Americans to agree. All Americans could heartily echo David Lilienthal's "great belief in civil liberties." But if they believed in democracy and Soviet Russia too, as Henry Wallace did, then it was time they had their heads examined-or their hearts...
Fort Riley soldiers soon learn that it does no good to whistle at Junk Town girls-they can't be had. Monson and his friends have noticed the return of the old civilian belief that soldiers are bums who haven't got the brains to be anything else. No one seems to remember that they were drafted. Nice girls, who once thought it smart and patriotic to be seen with soldiers (preferably an officer), now just say: "On your way, dogface...
...time when the "inarticulate major premise" behind every judicial decision was an unswerving belief in the inviolable sanctity of unchecked private initiative, the Federal courts and the courts of the various states assumed the right, indeed the obligation, of reviewing and often rejecting the rulings of any agency which attempted to regulate the rates of railroads or public utilities...