Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators will be put on the stand and will make statements without any proof. These statements become part of the record, but often they are nothing more than the investigator's belief. There is no effective rebuttal. The effect is that some witnesses who might testify if they got a fairer chance take the Fifth Amendment. I don't say they would testify. I just wonder if they might...
Sacred to Three. What the scholars found almost passed belief. There were 3,000 manuscripts, many illuminated. In the apse of the basilica there was a 6th century Transfiguration of Christ, 20 feet across, one of the earliest, most splendid, and best preserved of all Byzantine mosaics. There were more than 2,000 ancient icons, by far the world's largest and also greatest collection...
...belief that the Democratic Party does not need the South to win the election prevails, and Mr. Butler keeps his word, the South will be placed in a difficult position. They will either have to swallow the strong Civil Rights plank or form a third party--and the independent movement is highly risky for the South...
...very clear . . . [No one] can command anybody else to come to a summit meeting. And you can't bluff them or blackmail them or anything else. This is to be a meeting, if there is one, of heads of government who are acting voluntarily and because of their beliefs in the possibilities with some kind of grounds for such a belief that real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us." He stressed that a foreign ministers' meeting must first show "progress"-but he was notably vague about what "progress" meant. Back home in Britain, Macmillan simply...
...Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country at the United Nations, where he will presumably wind up lecturing the West on its lack of spiritual qualities...