Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not have been as brutish as his detractors say. His face and skull certainly had a somewhat apelike cast, but his brain was as big as that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could...
...wrote the London Sunday Times's Henry Brandon from Washington last week-and he was by no means alone in his belief that the U.S. foreign policy was about to make a dramatic shift. The New York Times, along with a host of other newspapers, revealed that the U.S. had "agreed" on a new peacemaking effort involving negotiations not only toward a watered-down disarmament plan but also toward a considerable reduction in the opposing NATO-Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. Such stories misrepresented actual U.S. policy planning, but the newsmen could hardly be blamed. They were merely reflecting...
This was a prospect which did not seem to faze President Soekarno who, reiterating his belief in "guided democracy," said: "It is for the purpose of purifying democracy that I'm seeking a solution." How much time the President had left in which to find a way out was open to question...
Accountants summed up the estate of Sportsman William Woodward Jr., accidentally shot to death 14 months ago by his wife Ann in her belief that he was a prowler (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955 et seq.). Inheritance taxes will gobble more than $6,000,000 of his net estate of $10,186,299. Ann was left the life income from a $1,300,000 trust; upon her death, their two sons are to get her trust principal...
...Adventists, for their part, announced that they would publish-probably next spring-a new, definitive statement of their faith. Said Roy Allan Anderson, secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association: "Because of certain features of our belief which have too often been misunderstood and at times misstated by others, some well-meaning Christians have commonly classified us with the non-Christian cults ... It is very possible that we ourselves share in the responsibility for this misunderstanding, because of our failure to state clearly what we believe on these fundamental issues and our failure to place chief emphasis where...