Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cavendish-Bentinck did not let the charges against his friends or himself prevent him from discharging his obligation of observing last month's Polish election; he made no secret of his belief (shared by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane) that the election was neither free nor unfettered, as Britain, the U.S. and Russia had guaranteed at Yalta. Apparently, he felt that it would be a personal and a national disgrace to duck a responsibility his country had assumed...
White-bearded Menno Simons, who gave the group its name, was a Catholic priest of 44 when he left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...sociological view of the law his outstanding contribution to American jurisprudence. Not hidebound by the attorney's dogmas, he probed behind them to see how they squared with actualities. To equate legal formulas with changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation rather than one solely of competitive self-assertion...
Chapel Hill, N.C. CHARLES G. BRITT 'f| TIME wishes that such Southerners as Readers Parmley, Duncan and Britt were in the majority. TIME shares their hope and belief that in the South, as in the rest of the U.S., Dr. Carver will be remembered long after Bilbo and Talmadge...
...belief of others. "They are frightened by the unruly aspect we present and they suspect us of a certain moral and intellectual bankruptcy. They are attracted by the apparent smoothness and efficiency of a society where conformity is the rule and where all men walk in step. That is why Soviet Communism can seriously challenge us for world leadership. The time has come when we shall have to put up or shut...