Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, no alarmist, was alarmed. She wrote: "At a moment when Europe's inclination to relax has received such encouragement from Moscow, the talk of slowdowns and cutbacks reported from Washington is the height of folly. More, it is dangerous and irresponsible beyond belief...
...simpler Macfadden tenets included the harem skirt, grass-eating, boxing with the feet, having babies without doctors standing on your head to make your hair grow." But all these techniques were useless unless the patient practiced the Master's main belief-"that . . . there is but one disease: impurity of the blood" for which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis...
...Your testimony," said Kearney at the hearing's close, "leaves me the same impression as before, that it is unworthy of belief...
...near the trains, hopeful that Wilfred will step out of one of them. When help from the R.A.F. and Scotland Yard reached a dead end, Sutherland had pictures of his son enlarged and distributed, with an offer of a reward for fruitful information. Sutherland stubbornly hangs on to the belief that his son will come back to London for another Easter holiday. "As long as I live," he vowed, "I'll be here at Easter, waiting...
...there any foundation for belief in the spontaneous combustion of chronic alcoholics?" a correspondent asked the British Medical Journal. No, said the editor, Charles Dickens' case (Mr. Krook in Bleak House) notwithstanding. "There is no scientific foundation for the theory that hell fire is anticipated ... in chronic alcoholics...