Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee prior to his confirmation as chairman of the FCC, Chicago Lawyer Newton N. Minow, 35, enunciated a television creed to build a dream on: "I will work toward more wide-open spaces between the westerns and more public affairs instead of private eyes...
...Bible-beating schools, today's Methodist colleges pride themselves on putting education ahead of religion, energetically toss out vocational courses in favor of pure liberal arts. Students of any creed are welcome; each college has full control of curriculum, and required chapel attendance and religion courses vary widely...
...been the second telecast of his new CBS panel show, You're in the Picture, but the studio was stripped to the brick walls. After sipping from a coffee cup ("a new coffee: Chock-Full-o'-Booze"), Gleason squarely faced the camera and continued: "We have a creed tonight, and the creed is honesty . . . Last week we did a show that laid the biggest bomb-it would make the H-bomb look like a two-inch salute...
...tell. In 1954, Gann decided not to press his luck. On every flight, he caught himself worrying that the law of averages might hunt him down. He knew it was time to turn in his wings, for he could no longer repeat an old airline pilot's creed: "One thing I'm sure about. If my tail gets there, so will the passengers...
...effort in the recent campaign to forfend mistaken visions of tunnels to the Vatican or popes in New York harbours may unfortunately have led people to the opposite erroneous extreme of thinking religion and secular life have no points of contact at all. But the adherent of any religious creed and the set of moral ethics it implies, must naturally strive to express these in his daily life. A believer in the precepts of the Constitution will endeavour to do the same. So the Catholic takes a stand against "birth control, ...the drug traffic and pornography...