Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minnesota, he called the Vice President "a man who has been trained to say yes" and one "who has trotted meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged the belief that he was losing his composure at last. When, on a network television program, he accused the New York Times of "gutter politics" for an editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than...
Soon after, however, Ingersoll as well as Goldsborough left the company. MacLeish had already resigned-taking a parting shot, albeit friendly, at Luce: "It's very hard to be as successful as you have been and still keep your belief in the desperate necessity for fundamental change. I think you have been an honorable journalist. You would have been happier in a fight, though...
Nixon's position is consistent with his belief, as stated on an October 27 radio broadcast, that the establishment of a coalition government in South Vietnam would be a "thinly disguised surrender." This total commitment to the government in power was the same which prompted Nixon in 1954 to call for armed intervention to aid the French in Vietnam...
...presented this country with ideal candidates--but even on the issue of foreign policy there is a choice. It is impossible to predict what either of the major party nominees will do if elected President. Their response to the bombing halt, however, can only reinforce the belief that the momentum toward peace lies with Humphrey...
...succeeded in saving the Church, its Popes, Bishops and other members from error and ignorance." Because of the church's claim to infallibility, "even her good arguments cease to be effective. Behind them outsiders suspect specious pleadings, not honest attempts to find the truth." Therefore, Simons concludes, "belief in infallibility is an obstacle to progress and the Gospel's effectiveness." It is also, more obviously, an obstacle to Christian unity. Simons argues that the demands of ecumenicism also justify the church's abandonment of the infallibility claim...