Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amusing to find Anglicans so disturbed by the "doctrinal errors" of the Roman Catholic Church, when Anglicanism tolerates in its fold every form of belief and disbelief from Papalism to Marxism, not only among lay folk but even among prominent clergymen . . . Perhaps Canterbury feels he would have no more success than when . . . he explained away his inability to displace the notorious "Red Dean" of his own Cathedral Church...
...some graduates were doubtful, others were outspoken in their disbelief that an honor system could be effective here. One man spoke of progress: "In the evolutionary scheme of undergraduate bodies, the Princeton gentleman represents the most highly-developed species of gentlemanly characteristics; Harvardians are still at a more rudimentary level of development...
...places that had once been home to the men on Burchett's list, the reaction was the same wrenching disbelief. "We don't believe it . . ." "It just couldn't be." "They're holding him against his will." In Alden, Minn., the mother of Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like...
...Occidentals . . . He investigates his faults, puts them on record, and shouts them from the housetops . . . America's handling of the Negro problem has been criticized most emphatically by white Americans . . . and the criticism . . . will not stop until America has completely reformed itself . . . Mankind is sick of fear and disbelief . . . If America in actual practice could show the world [that] the Negro became finally integrated into modern democracy, all mankind would be given faith again . . . and America would have spiritual power many times stronger than all her financial and military resources?the power of the trust and support of all good...
...Zealand editor refused to believe, or print, details of the double head er. Mrs. Small, reported Invercargill's Southland Daily News, was "so hurt" by such disbelief that "she has sworn that if she has another hole in one she will say nothing about...