Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought up in the belief," wrote John Foster Dulles to the President of the U.S. last week, "that this nation of ours was not merely a self-serving society but was founded with a mission to help build a world where liberty and justice would prevail." So saying, Dulles, gravely ill of cancer, resigned as Secretary of State. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "You have set a record that stands clear and strong for all to see." Appointed to succeed Dulles in as critical time as ever faced a nation in a role of leadership: Christian Archibald Herter, 64, longtime student...
...evening wore on most of the audience seemed to be singing itself into belief. They romped through This Land Is Your Land, The Banks Are Made of Marble, Dark As A Dungeon, and Die Gedanken Sind Frei...
Because of the impossibility of representation, many students thus feel nothing but disdain for those who bid for their vote and pass themselves off as their representatives. In addition the belief of the academically oriented that those who politick are in a lower class causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses...
Medieval surgeons and barbers believed in the equation, corpus sanum=mens sana. This thought did not die with the Renaissance, for it is perpetuated today in Harvard athletics. Every year, in the belief that intellectual superiority and athletic interest go hand in hand, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pours hundreds of thousands of dollars into the undergraduate sports program...
West Germany's government took another stride toward making good on Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard's belief that a free-enterprising government should not be in big business. On public sale fortnight ago went a sizable block of stock in one of the 300 nationalized companies inherited by the government after World War II: 300,000 shares of the big (1958 sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little...