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Word: believingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holder, 44, attributes his multiplicity of interests to his father, a "salesman with brains" in Port-of-Spain who believed that "if you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wizard of Trinidad | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

Arms List. Yet, if the plight of the Americans was seen to be grave, could not Congress vote for the aid funds as a last gesture, believing that the money would provide a psychological lift but not actually be spent? Perhaps, but the weariness with Viet Nam, the suspicion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: Seeking the Last Exit from Viet Nam | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

This isn't just a race, it's Hobbesean men racing over and intersecting the fates of those poor Rousseauian slobs who made their pitiful bargain surrendering essential freedoms for the Social Security benefits of their Social Contract. Are these despicable men cousins of the NRA and Birchers, neo-Nazis...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

However, remaining a great power is not essentially defensive. Security for the U.S. is not enough. In recent years a new set of global problems has arisen-hunger, the population explosion, energy-of whose implications Americans are still only partly aware. To help solve these, as the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE U.S. CANNOT LIVE IN ISOLATION | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

On their list of musts was a moratorium on all new federal spending programs through 1976. "We want him to shout that loud and clear, right now," declared a Senator. Nor would they tolerate the nationalization of any troubled industry like the railroads. "We are on the brink of socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Growling on Ford's Right | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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