Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being made by these groups, and by the insidious dissident faction of the society led by Jay Murley and his New True Conservative Legion, who are trying to subvert the true purposes of the organization under a cloak of "humorous crockery." The Reactionary Society is firmly committed to a belief of freedom of the personal will which can only be obtained through a strong reactionary, conservative movement. Liberal groups which parade under conservative guise and with so-called conservative leaders, like the Harvard New Conservative Club led by William Brady and the Harvard Young Republican Club bossed by Johnny Thomson...
...Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism, Utopian pioneering of the land, and a generous belief in the nature of man. Israel's 300,000 elementary-school children attend either religious or "general" schools. In the one case they learn the Bible as God's Word, in the other more as folk literature. But always it remains at the forefront of the classroom...
...enough. "The rumors published this week are malicious fabrications," said Chiang Ching-kuo in a written statement that seemed to exclude any likelihood that the Peking Communists would or could deal with him. "Communists are liars and devils. You cannot talk with the devil. It is my ardent belief that to solve the Communist problem, the only way is to eliminate Communism...
...life was a long irony. He had no great belief in religion, except as a necessary instrument of government; yet he was in holy orders. He was a charming man to children-with the attractiveness, to borrow a phrase from Henry Miller, of a man about to go insane. He had an obscene imagination; yet his Gulliver...
There may be reasons which do not appear that keep Washington officials from making the most of it. One could be an unwillingness to engage in a game of bluff. Involved, too, it seems, is the inertia of bureaucracy, the latent fear of miscalculation, a belief that doing nothing is apt to be safer than doing something. In psychological warfare the imponderables predominate. However, that is not an argument for doing nothing, but for doing what needs to be done promptly, thoroughly, and effectively...