Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind a barricade just seized by the marines, we saw another amazing sight. Less than 50 yards away, through dense smoke, came 40 to 50 North Korean soldiers. They dragged a light antitank gun. Apparently they thought the barricade was held by their side. The marines first stared in disbelief, then opened fire with every weapon available. The Reds screamed, buckled, pitched and died on Mapo's pavement...
...feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would be merely sinful, or, as the church puts it, "temerarious or rash." After Pope Pius XII pronounces it a dogma, disbelief in the Assumption will be considered formal heresy...
...argument flared up again. The president of the Seville Royal Academy of Belles Lettres announced that he had "historical proof" that bones newly discovered in a Carthusian monastery were those of Christopher Columbus. The announcement was received with cold disbelief by the custodians of Columbus' white marble mausoleum in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, which claims to have the remains of the discoverer...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...
...married his son's divorced wife, thereby becoming his granddaughter's stepfather. Bewhiskered, 102-year-old J. Frank Dalton went into court in Union, Mo., swore that he was Jesse James and petitioned to have his rightful name restored. The judge turned him down, in tones of disbelief, and then growled: "[But] if he is Jesse James I suggest he retreat to his rendezvous and ask his good God to forgive him." The Treasury Department announced a resurgence of moonshining...