Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booming James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger, board chairman of North American Aviation Inc. (rocket motors), heartily agreed with Tommy Lanphier: "I think it is going to be a long, long time before we have what I consider dependable, reliable [ballistic] missiles . . . They are intricate beyond human belief." Also beyond belief, according to Kindelberger, is the state of the Pentagon. "It reminds me," said he, "of a skein of yarn with which the cat has been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside...
...would try to reach a decision today, although he would not state whether or not he favored widespread exceptions to the rule which now requires students to live in College lodgings. The Dean of the Faculty said, however, that the recent poll of the junior class "strongly reinforced our belief that the House system is a great success...
Power Misunderstood. "The only deterrent to the imposition of Russian will in Western Europe is the belief that, from the outset of any such attempt, American power would be employed in stopping it, and, if necessary, would inflict upon the Soviet Union injury which the Moscow regime would not wish to suffer. The regime will not believe that this will happen if the U.S. and Western Europe are separated and stand alone...
...basis of this British undergraduates' ditty, French Novelist Romain Gary has constructed a modern fable, and good fables, like nursery rhymes, must command belief. As a man of action (he was a hero of the French air force, is now French consul general in Los Angeles), Author Gary understands this well, has written his story in the idiom of documentary journalism. It is completely successful-one of the best narratives to be published in a long time. The Roots of Heaven has won one of France's highest literary awards-the Prix Goncourt -doubtless for the very French...
...proposed amendment apparently reflects strong Democratic belief that Eisenhower did not ask for sufficient funds in his request for $1 1/4 billion in emergency money or his nearly $40-billion defense budget for the fiscal year beginning July...