Word: doubter
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...know. "I knew I'd told the truth," he says, "and that the truth would have to come out, and did." It is hard for Washington, so conditioned by guile and intrigue, to accept that. Yet Reagan's eyeball-to-eyeball insistence can sway almost any doubter...
...saying, 'I really won?' " Now that the question has been answered, Randi, 57, is wasting no time in putting the money to work, expanding his office, hiring a full-time researcher, and planning for a college scholarship so that more debunkers can be set to work. The Great Doubter has become a true believer in his benefactors: "They reached very far out, perhaps dangerously so, in giving it to a magician instead of some academic. I feel a great responsibility to the foundation...
...last night's competition at the Eastern Seaboard Championships, there probably wasn't a single doubter within 50 miles of Blodgett Pool, as the Harvard men's swimming team moved out to a nearly insurmountable two-day lead of 130 points...
...When the voting starts, will people line up behind Walter Mondale? Despite the gathering momentum of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
Describing the nation's problems and the world's ills is one way the Carter crew answers its critics. No less a doubter than former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger declares that the President is not responsible for the growth of Soviet military power, which has neutralized our own; the decline of American political authority because of Viet Nam and Watergate; the conditions that led to the revolution in Iran; the growing self-assertion of the industrialized allies; and the energy squeeze. Carter has not fragmented the Congress or created the fierce independence of its individual members. The wealth...