Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless, unstable mixture of most of the colors on the political palette. His own Christian Democrats include monarchists and republicans, rebels and traditionalists, free enterprisers and welfare staters, clericals and anticlericals. It is, in every respect, a "center party," basted together by an abhorrence of extremes and a belief in moderation. It is a Catholic party, approved by the Vatican, largely dependent in the election campaign on the vigorous, vote-harvesting activities of the Catholic Action movement. Yet Christian Democracy's three allies in the campaign all have their roots in Italy's long and emphatic anticlerical past...
What is their credo? Fundamentally, it is the common heritage of Western civilization, a Judeo-Christian heritage with which men of all faiths may agree. Their basic philosophical faith may be generally stated as a belief in 1) the fatherhood of God, 2) the brotherhood of man, 3) the essential dignity of man, and 4) the right of the individual to hold and administer private property, subject to his responsibilities to his fellowmen. Christian Democracy began as a Christian Socialism and gradually moved towards center and right. Originally, its intention was to escape the bleak godlessness of both left...
...Chicago soon after he got out of Harvard Medical School and began seeking ways to relieve the human misery that cancer causes. Unlike many of his colleagues, who can do pure research with an eye to the far future, Dr. Huggins has never been able to sound dispassionate. His belief in the frontal attack-what he calls "cancer, research with one eye on the cancer of man" -has led him into more than one chase after rainbows, such as a universal blood test for cancer. But it has also led him, after a trying period of roundabout research into...
...Guadalupe to kill Maria but to get back a photograph of his wife. He fired only after she refused him and reached for her shotgun. But his defense was based in large part on the implication that he too was a victim of a belief in witchcraft...
...defense tried hard to make Joe's belief in Maria's power seem reasonable: "We can't see God but we believe in Him." When Prosecutor William P. Mahoney Jr. called all this "compounding nonsense out of nonsense" and asked that Joe be sent to the gas chamber, Mexicans in the audience shivered. "Wait," whispered one, "until he feels a curse!" In the end, the jury rejected both the defense's plea of temporary insanity and self-defense, and the prosecution's demand for the death penalty, found Joe guilty of second-degree murder...