Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patient, politically wise Minister Ilsley listened sympathetically for almost six hours. Then he raised members' hopes by offering to reconsider the problem, dashed them as quickly by adding: "My present belief is that [a change] should not be made for the present members...
...most dangerous corn I've ever listened to" emanates from Mrs. Henry Topping (TIME, April 10), who speaks over Radio Hsinking. Apparently an elderly U.S. widow, she tells of visits to Americans in Japanese prison camps, of their belief that there is no sense fighting the "delightful" Japanese. Grim: "She sounds like somebody making fun of your mother, and you resent...
Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
During his Navy service Chaplain Gatlin converted 31 sailors. But many things about his work disturbed him. He did not like to baptize by sprinkling ("Contrary to Baptist belief and practice") or "to administer the Lord's Supper to any but baptized believers." He did not like Navy orders "not to tell the men what the Bible teaches concerning salvation," but to tell the men "character stories and that they must be willing to die for their country." He was stunned by rumors about "several chaplains who had gotten drunk," and he was shocked that some chaplains swear...
...Sheridans. Home blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Holywood, that the movie-going public has an I.Q. a little lower than that of a mentally retarded twelve-year...