Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought to Washington to conduct American foreign and defense policy. Most of us in this room know some at least of these men. Many here know them all. And we know them to be persons of immutable conviction on almost all matters we would regard as central to liberal belief, and further to be men of personal honor and the highest intellectual attainment. There are, further, not a few of us present who contributed something considerable to persuade the American public that we were entirely right to be setting out on that course that has brought us waist deep...
Restraining Both Sides. Many of the Canton tales seem beyond belief-and they probably are. Reliable eyewitnesses are scarcer than dragon's teeth, and, unaccountably, no one has come out of China with a single picture documenting the mass scenes of violence, bodies hanging from trees and tanks firing in the streets. In fact, a Japanese journalist who recently spent a night or two in Canton neither saw violence nor heard shooting. The total number of deaths and the luridness of detail seem to grow as they are passed from traveler to traveler...
...also does a good deal more than talk. His actions, like his speeches, are based on a philosophy of political and economic realism that he unabashedly calls "Bourguibism." Bourguibism is shaped by the belief, he explains in the Cartesian style that he acquired in elite French schools, that "no domain of terrestrial life must escape man's power of reason." Ever since the French left him to rule Tunisia in 1956, Bourguiba has been trying to apply reason to nation building. He has not always succeeded, but there are increasing signs of more success than failure...
...much as any other U.S. denomination, the Episcopal Church has made clear its belief that racism and inequality are among the great social evils of the age. Precisely how to implement that conviction proved to be a major issue at the opening sessions of the church's triennial General Convention in Seattle last week. In his opening state-of-the-church address, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines declared that the racial crisis "can be as fatal to the well-being of this nation as anything short of a nuclear holocaust" and proposed that the church spend $3 million...
...college football is a game that frequently defies belief. The 33,000 fans and 18 million TV viewers who watched those mites from S.M.U. upset Texas A. & M. in the opening game of the season will not be surprised if the rest of the season is anticlimax...