Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record the governors perfunctorily voted to cooperate in setting up such a task force, but in cynical asides and "don't-quote-me" comments the majority made perfectly plain their belief -and in several cases their hope-that nothing much would ever come of the idea...
...beleaguered community" constantly on the defensive. "It is not too extreme to say that in many cases [Catholic] classes of philosophy are used to form defending debaters of Catholic positions. Philosophy is not envisaged as a personal quest for truth but rather as a predigested apologetic of religious belief. Young men, firm in their faith and lovers of debate, esteem this highly, but they escape the encounter with scholarship...
...Supreme Court held that the crime, as Mathes described it, was no crime at all because it still came within the protective mantle of the Constitution's First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and political belief. Wrote Justice Harlan: "The essential distinction is that those to whom the advocacy is addressed must be urged to do something, now or in the future, rather than merely to believe in something...
...member of the party." He agreed to answer all questions about his own participation in Communist affairs. He would even name those whom he believed still to be Communists. But Witness Watkins firmly and flatly drew the line at identifying old associates "who to my best knowledge and belief have long since removed themselves from the Communist movement...
Unlike the staid A.P., a nonprofit cooperative owned by its member newspapers, the United Press for half a century has aggressively sold its product to all comers. Thus, it has never wavered from Founder E. W. ("Damned Ol Crank") Scripps's belligerent belief that only a profitable news service can achieve editorial impartiality. The first major U.S. news service to prosper as a commercial undertaking, the U.P. today is the world's most enterprising wire-news merchant, an international giant serving 1,560 U.S. newspapers and 3,270 other clients in the U.S. and 71 foreign countries (estimated...