Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President saw the speech as an opportunity to help restore America's pride, so severely tested by Viet Nam and Watergate. To do so, he reminded Americans of their virtues and strengths, declaring that they are drawn together by "a belief in human freedom," and that "we want the world to know that our nation stands for more than financial prosperity." Said he: "I believe we can have a foreign policy that is democratic, that is based on our fundamental values and that uses power and influence for humane purposes...
Beyond doubt the American temper is strikingly different today from what it was then. After World War II, the nation enjoyed an almost cocky belief that it could do anything - and everything. Had not the U.S. just saved civilization? Did not the U.S. own the Bomb? Most Americans were eager to proclaim their nation the greatest. And they turned out to be perfectly willing to prove it - once they had been asked to. Americans of Marshall's day, of course, also had trust in their Government - and a certitude about their power to prevail that had not been crumpled...
...done by a seemingly unrepentant former underground fighter who believes deeply that Israel should not surrender any part of the Jewish people's ancient landed heritage. ''The new government is going to be composed of a group of people who are religious nationalists imbued with mysticism and a belief in force," said one Jerusalem official. "I worry as much about their theocratic tendencies at home as I do about their getting us into...
...Israel partly because he was seen as a man who would stand up to American pressure. Is he as intransigent as his statements sound? In Israel, Begin's detractors contend that his stand against surrendering the West Bank has been too consistent and unambiguous to make credible the belief that he might substantially change his view. Even if he wanted to, it is possible that too many of his supporters have such a passionate commitment to holding all of ancient Eretz Israel that he could not survive if he betrayed his pledges...
...changed his name to Aerbel and now lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also...