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Word: believingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Presidents have lamented the loneliness of their position. That description was never quite accurate. They alone had to make decisions, but those decisions were on policy issues on which they had counsel and support before and after. Even when Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, a move that outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Loneliness of Richard Nixon | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

8) making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In a Manner Contrary to His Trust | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

What to do about these attacks of violence? Spurred by police statistics and women's rights groups, some state legislatures are now rewriting their rape laws. To convict a rapist, most states require evidence to support the victim's claim: cuts, bruises or torn clothing, a medical report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Revolt Against Rape | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Joseph F. Crangle, 42. "I grew up believing that the Democratic Party was the instrument for the common good, to correct social ills," says New York State's Democratic chairman, an issue-oriented politician. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, Crangle presented the only minority plank to be adopted: abolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Domino Theory. A Minneapolis housewife, Delores Wegner, 37, recently voiced just such a note of loss in a distressed letter to her diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Bulletin. "What was the first snowflake of compromise," she asked, that led to the "present avalanche of spiritual and religious concessions? Was it the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Counter-Reformation | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

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