Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet in Panmunjom, a village just a mile away from Songhyon? Ridgway promptly agreed that Panmunjom met "the fundamental condition of equality of movement and control." Once again it was left to juniors to work out the details. But in Seoul and Tokyo, U.N. commanders continued in their optimistic belief that the Reds genuinely want a ceasefire...
...learned the 13 points of the creed of the great 12th Century rabbi, Maimonides, the Jewish Aristotle: the belief in God's existence, in His unity, incorporeality, timelessness, and approachability through prayer; the belief in prophecy, in the superiority of Moses to all other prophets, in the revelation of the Law and its immutability, in Divine providence, Divine justice, the eventual coming of the Messiah; the belief in the resurrection and in everlasting life. He memorized the civil and canon law of the Talmud in great early-morning gulps, often leaving home at 5:30 a.m. to study...
...belief that such services as his department performs for Massachusetts should be available to law enforcement agencies all over the country. "Most coroners, who must find causes for death, are not even doctors," he points out, "but elected or appointed minor politicians. The number of states which demand that medical examiners must be physicians can be counted on one hand...
...Giffen said that she had called Constance Huntington Hall, a Radcliffe trustee, Saturday morning in the belief that the raised shades may have attracted the prowlers...
...success. This probably explains why millions of mainland Chinese are engaged in hsueh hsi and why Red China has a dedicated army which rarely breaks, an efficient and incorruptible corps of administrators, and a zealous youth ready to believe that black is white and to die for that warped belief...