Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article dealing with our difficulties with space expresses the kind of realism I like to see. It strikes me as fantastic almost beyond belief that American missilemen are not allowed just $105 million to speed up Saturn tests four years; yet American farmers are given some $7 billion to increase the food bills of the American people...
...resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports and to listen with sympathy, if not always full belief, to the arguments for continuing stringent exchange controls . . . My government believes that recovery has proceeded to a point where restrictions on trade imposed to meet the financial problems of a decade ago can no longer be justified...
...disclaimer affidavit which the National defense Education Act requires is "inimical to the Protestant principle of freedom of belief," the Divinity School Faculty declared last night. "Moreover," the formal statement continued, "it tends to jeopardize the academic obligation of the Divinity school Faculty to promote freedom of inquiry to a wide range of religious and quasi-religious beliefs, as well as to a wide range of critical problems affecting the intellectual, cultural, and moral life...
Attacking the issue of Federal aid, it continues, "We find it necessary to affirm our belief in the desirability and, indeed, the absolute necessity of Federal aid to American higher education." The objectionable provisions in the NDEA, the report points out, are not "inevitable concomitants of Federal monies...
Both the oath and affidavit requirements, however, are "intrinsically objectionable," according to the committee. "A requirement of belief or conviction . . .," the report states, "must clearly conflict with the tradition of intellectual non-interference which has been the precious possession of American universities...