Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twice within five years, we had to hear from the land that all others strive to emulate, the harsh, frightening crack of an assassin's rifle. The shots that were echoing around the world after the death of John F. Kennedy, shaking the belief that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights...
...investigators who recently spent four weeks in Greece. The investigators charged that some of the junta's prisoners have been subjected to systematic tortures, including beatings on the soles of the feet and electric shocks to the genitals. The British government immediately buttressed the report by declaring its belief that prisoners have indeed been inhumanely treated...
...faltered briefly in the second movement. But for the most part, he did amazingly well, and his new work-an uninhibited, brightly colored score built around a twelve-tone row-made a handsome impression on the Londoners in the audience, who applauded tumultuously for ten minutes in the obvious belief that they had witnessed a very special kind of event...
...growing belief at Harvard that a big college weekend is unnecessary...
...Class of 1971 will not one day be able to dip into this well of memory is appalling. It was sad indeed to hear the chairman of the Jubilee Committee list the reasons for lack of participation: no so-called "soul music and the bad reputation of Jubilee--the belief that it would be a "wild orgy." Perhaps our lady does have a bad name; then it is up to you to get it straight again...