Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week some of the answers were shaping up. At a recent political dinner in his honor, "Goody" Knight set forth his credo: "I propose to take sides and to make decisions . . . There is a special place in hell for those who, confronted with a real moral crisis, insist on remaining neutral. I have no ambition to achieve such a special place." Afterward the governor's daughter Marilyn, 26, said that she was awed by the crowd's size. Explained the governor: "They didn't come to see us, honey; they came to see the movie stars...
...chancellors must always sound warnings. To make Britain safe, said Butler, its people must 1) earn more from exports, 2) dig more coal, 3) recover their ancient spirit of economic adventure. To his countrymen, Butler recommended his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed...
...staff . . . the wide, sensual mouth tightened into its own denial." He is a sharp-tongued, arrogant genius, always at odds with his colleagues, the newspapers, society in general. His creed on the lecture stand: "Let no scruples stand in the way of the progress of medical science." His personal credo: "I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company, and their feelings towards you are always genuine." By his own admission, he has paid body snatchers, or "Resurrectionists," as much as 500 guineas a term...
...panic. In spiritual things as well, Durant does a truer set on his subject than many a more academic historian. He catches gracefully "the integral spirit" of the age in aptly chosen quotations and lets the earthy irreverence of the era bubble up too, as it does in the credo of Luigi Pulci, a favorite of Lorenzo the Magnificent...
When General Charles P. Summerall took over the presidency of South Carolina's Military College (The Citadel) in 1932, there was not a soldier or cadet in the land who had not heard of him. Armed with his famed credo, the "artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he had commanded the Fifth Army Corps in World War I, later became chief of staff. The Citadel was honored to have such a man at its head-and the school was never to be quite the same again...