Word: doubter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sorensen, the President's longtime administrative assistant and specialist in domestic politics and policies: up a lot as a dedicated doubter who will now be turning his doubts on State Department and Pentagon careermen...
...doubter persistently questioned their authenticity. "I was always suspicious of them stylistically," says Boston-born Harold Woodbury Parsons, 78, who, after graduating in science at Harvard, turned to art and spent most of his life buying European art for U.S. museums. "I sensed something wrong...
...Oakland center was born of disaster: on June 30, 1956 a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-7 lumbered blindly into each other over the Grand Canyon, sent 128 passengers and crew members to their deaths, and convinced the last cost-conscious doubter that the nation's traffic control system was dangerously inadequate. As a direct result of the collision and others, Congress created the Federal Aviation Agency and this year provided $150 million to build a network of 26 new control centers. Of these, Oakland is the first...
Polka Dots & Pioneers. Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing...
After pointing out that each person was both a doubter and a believer, he emphasized the importance of doubt to strengthen one's final faith. "Purpose, doubt, and courage of faith" should be important elements in the student's life, he added...