Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testifying on the Hill this summer warned of the changing dependency ratio in the United States--by the year 2000 one-fifth of the population will be over 65; three workers will support one retiree as opposed to the six that now support each senior citizen. There is no doubt that the social security system will have to undergo a major revamping in the upcoming years unless the next generation of the labor force is willing to accept an inordinate increase in social security taxation...
...diocese. In a column written for the weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking to the dead priest's shoes. - Jane Estes
...protesters, the generals-at least until the weekend Shootout at Tehran University -had obeyed the Shah's command to avoid the sort of bloody showdown that followed the imposition of martial law in twelve cities on Sept. 8. One inhibiting factor may be the top echelon's doubt that rank-and-file troops would support their commanders if ordered to attack protesters with bullets and bayonets. Moreover, "shooting Iran into political silence," as one Tehran newspaper put it, would probably fail. Many Western experts believe that the Shah's only hope of calming the unrest...
...recruit contributors, the TM organization uses a videotape of Convict Corum talking by phone to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru from India who brought TM to Europe and the U.S. TM organizers are also putting together an index of rehabilitation, though there is some doubt that parole boards would-or should-judge an inmate ready for release on the basis of things like improved alpha and theta brain waves. Penal authorities are more likely to be persuaded by the support TM has so far given parolees through free counseling at the 80 TM centers around the state...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...