Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctrines of 'apartheid,' by demands that 'what we want is therefore our right, and we must have it ... without regard to the interests of others.' " ¶ Voted for an intensive missionary campaign in the "vital strategic area" of the missionary district of Alaska, "in the belief that Christianity forms the first line of defense...
...results have justified Young's belief that Alleghany got a bargain. The stock now has a market value of $6,000,000. And though I.D.S. still hasn't paid a dividend, it earned $35 a share in profits in 1950-51. When it finishes paying off high interest plans (5% and 6%) sold in the '305, it may start paying dividends. "We're in this strictly as an investment," said Bob Purcell, "and we're in it to stay. We figured that the investment business of the country was moving from Wall Street to Main...
...opening day of the convention, British Biologist Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO, proposed launching a formal humanist religion. Present religions, he felt, are doing the job badly, and insisting too much on supernatural beliefs and absolute truth. Specifically, he suggested, the Roman Catholic stand on birth control and India's belief in sacred cows are good examples of religion's retarding influence...
...from being a copy of The Castle, it gains from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like many another modern novel, it reads like an atheist's funeral march-in which the composer (to say nothing of the corpse) is numbly resigned to the belief that man begins in dreams and ends in dust...
...have news for Winston and Reader Hughes [TIME Letters, Aug. 4]. Snafu and cummfu are a bit old hat in Washington, along with tarfu ("things are really"), fubar ("beyond all realization"), fubb ("beyond belief...