Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise of a strong third party, along the pattern of Britain Laborites...
Christian and pagan philosophers have proclaimed the sadness and transience of human life. But the Jew, who has known more of tragedy than most men, has remained "the one true optimist; his love of life is 'strong as death.' " And he has held firm to the belief that "tachlis [purpose] and not tragedy . . . is the meaning of life...
...trouble with such articles and others like it is the support they lend to a belief that scientists are beating a retreat to some more or less anthropomorphic god, Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, etc., and it just...
...Iranian national budget. The British hoped such economic blows would compel a change of heart, perhaps through a change of government. But there was an unpleasant prospect in this plan: a Red-led regime and economic chaos might replace Mossadeq. The septuagenarian Premier himself clung desperately to a belief that Allah, or perhaps the U.S., would somehow retrieve the situation...
...commodities or stocks was a favorite pastime among the wizards of Wall Street and the giants of the grain pits. But now, making a corner is illegal, unless it is done accidentally; in recent years the feat has been accomplished only rarely. Last week there was a growing belief that a combine of speculators had cornered the July futures market in rye-and made a big killing...