Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite easy for such people to be flittered by certain organizations. They are told they are great. Shall we say for the sake of argument, a great biologist or anatomist or anything you want, is told 'you views must be heard' . . . Politically some of them are naive beyond belief...
There is a popular belief that the Truman Administration reversed its policies toward Chiang in June 1950, when the Korean war began. In one sense it did: by ordering the Seventh Fleet to patrol the Formosa straits, and by sending Chiang a new batch of U.S. military advisers, Harry Truman recognized that a Communist Formosa would be a military hazard at the rear of the U.N. forces in Korea...
Some such professors are "naive beyond belief" politically, Conant said, but still are competent professors in their field...
...Southwest's most successful camp meetings (TIME, July 30, 1951), was especially shocked. Camp meetings, said he, represent "real, undented religion." He added: "If the Episcopal Church endorses the things Wright said in his address to the lawyers, I think they are fundamentally unsound in their belief and doctrine...
...that the free world needs U.S. lending less than U.S. spending. Last week, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, Black called for "a fundamental and lasting change" in U.S. tariff policy. Said he: "Clearly . . . the U.S. should open her markets to the free world . . . It is my belief that no other single factor could do as much in the long run to strengthen the world economy as an expansion in American imports...