Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck. He always wore the same yellow sweater, blue pants and tricolored scarf. Italians said of Nuvolari, as they had long before said of their spellbinding violinist, Paganini. that he had "a pact with the devil." This belief was strongly supported by Nuvolari's chief European rival, Achille Varzi. In the 1930 Mille Miglia, Varzi was coasting along the homestretch at night, confident that he was far in the lead. For miles, he had noticed no headlights behind him. Suddenly, out of the blackness, a car emerged...
...less account than conformity." Berenson praised his humor as so delicate that in the Triumph of Chastity (opposite, top), it escapes attention. True, Aphrodite and the scared little Eros "are fleeing before the fury of a female who evidently personifies Mrs. Grundy, but their innocent looks betray their belief that she has been seized by a sudden and unaccountable madness, for which they are in no way responsible...
Ever since the first truce meeting two years ago, there have been repeated "peace scares"-loose talk based on the uninformed belief that the war's end would send the economy into a tailspin. But businessmen were singularly unruffled when peace came. Around the country, they saw little change in the economic outlook. In Seattle, where the Boeing Airplane Co. payroll affects one person in six, Boeing President William Allen said the company's employment there would remain at 30,000. In Dallas, Economist Fred Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures...
Main Street to Broadway (Lester Cowan; MGM) is dedicated to the fond belief that everybody west of the Jersey Turnpike is simply fascinated by the theater in Manhattan; they may not be after seeing this movie, which is about as real as an actress' eyelashes...
...when Byron was 35, he found the strength, in his passionate belief in human liberty, to break his chain. He went to fight for the Greeks in their war of liberation from the Turks. In the midst of it all, he still found time to turn out verse and to twit an erring friend back home: "Pray who is the lady? The papers merely inform by dint of asterisks that she is somebody's wife and has children ... It is to be hoped that the jury will be bachelors...