Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published an alarmed eyewitness account of the crisis. Writing from the town of Lilongwe (pop. 350 whites and 5,000 Negroes) in Nyasaland, Archbishop Ramsey envisaged the loss of all Africa to Christianity, because to more and more black Africans it is nothing but the white man's creed. Warned the Archbishop: "The time is short...
...Colonial Williamsburg rose from the American past, and Rockefeller Center pointed to the American future (and changed the New York skyline). Schools, from Louvain to Tokyo and from Harvard to the University of Chicago (which his father founded in 1890), benefited by $81,708,000. Religious causes, representing every creed, received another $80 million. All told, the philanthropies of the Rockefellers, father and son, amounted to more than a billion dollars, changed the face of the world and the course of human events...
...largest single religious body in the nation, it is not surprising that we have elected scores of Catholic Congressmen, Senators and Governors. The election of a Catholic President would be fully in keeping with the American political ethic, which makes no distinctions based on race, color or creed...
...thoroughly belies the U.S. liberals' caricature-belief that an Old Guardist is a deep-dyed isolationist endowed with nothing but penny-pinching inhumanity and slavish devotion to Big Business. He calls for a U.S. drive to win the cold war, including liberation of the Communist satellites, outlines a creed of social and economic philosophy that both Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson could ratify. Planks in Goldwater's platform...
...double educational mission in India by covering the Nehru-Chou talks and holding his last seminar. He leaves with mixed feelings. Nowhere else has he found students so "intellectually hungry" and yet so lacking in "a sense of mission." India is tough on a teacher whose chief creed is that of Mr. Justice Holmes: "It is required of a man that he should take part in the actions and passions of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived...