Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief of the Roman Catholic Church and those who follow its teachings that the mutilation of the body for the purposes of contraception is a violation of the natural law and the revealed teachings of Christ. For this reason, Sister Mary Adele and the Brownsville Mercy Hospital were morally bound to act as they...
...buying ads in Communist newspapers, reviving connections with East Germans and Russians. After Inchon, however, Germans could visualize for the first time substantial U.S. reinforcements against the threat of 300,000 crack Russian troops across the Elbe River. The latest Korean disaster has now scared many Germans into the belief that the U.S. will wear itself out in a full-scale war with China. It has destroyed the German hope that a large U.S. army would come to Europe in the near future...
...Religion? Young Philosophy Student Antoine Pelletier considers that "the principal characteristic of American Protestantism of today seems to be the complete loss of the idea and the very meaning of religion . . . Religion has given way to religiosity and belief to opinion . . . The Unitarian Church . . . hesitated, a few years ago, over whether it should define itself as 'Christian' or 'humanist' . . . One may well ask whether American Protestantism is still, in its various forms, a religion...
...brusquely turned down Chiang's offer to send 33,000 troops to Korea, where they might have come in handy last week. Washington's policy was directed by the fear that any action strengthening Chiang would bring the Chinese Communists into the Korean war and by the belief that appeasing Mao would keep them...
...Secretary General Trygve Lie, during U.N.'s most nerve-racked week, the delegates wired their belief that "war is not inevitable," adding that the council was praying that the U.N. "may find just and effective procedures for containing and resolving the conflict in Korea...