Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lower-Case Liberal. Today no hasty or careful reader can doubt where the Guardian stands. The paper would like to see a strong Liberal Party revived. But since that is unlikely, it gives Labor "critical support," judges each piece of Labor's legislative program on its merits, leaps to the attack whenever it sniffs out doctrinaire measures. It wants Britain to get out of Greece, wishes the U.S. would get out of China, favors the partitioning of Palestine...
...week's end, meat prices had sagged a little (one Manhattan butcher shop sold sirloin for 68? a pound); and buyer resistance was up to its postwar peak. The resistance was partly fear, partly doubt, and partly an out-&-out inability to pay the price. But more than that, people were beginning to feel like unmitigated suckers...
...telephone people aren't telling which sex gets on a busy wire and talks for half-hour stretches about two-egg cakes and such things. We're not sticking our neck out, either. . . . We've just got an epidemic of telephonitis on our hands and . . . we doubt if it'll ever be cured...
...Boston Symphony's Serge Koussevitzky hurried offstage, excitedly kissed several dowagers who had come up to congratulate him. He had just conducted the world premiere of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony. Said he: "There is no doubt about it-this is the greatest American symphony. It goes from the heart to the heart. He is the greatest American composer. Of course...
...military alliance against Russia and her satelite Prussia. Even while the Congress was sitting in Vienna, war between its peacemakers was often considered inevitable. Who Won? Each delegate also brought the peace table his own valuation of his country's contribution to victory. Britons were in no doubt that their 20 years' resistance to Napoleon had been decisive. Austria believed that her support had tipped the balance; Prussia gloried in the exploits of her flaming youths, who had chivied Napoleon's rearguard on the way home from Moscow. Tsar Alexander was so sure he had won singlehanded...