Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 27 days in office, Postmaster Smith was fired. His appointment was withdrawn, and he was told to make way for one Walter Menefee, 53, who had been deputy U.S. marshal at Springfield (85 miles from Clinton). There was no doubt that Menefee had the post. His credentials were signed by Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...
...Maybe there'll be so many participation shows this fall that it'll kill the whole business. But I doubt...
...doubt there was a certain amount of holy innocence in Dr. Newton's appraisal of Communism in practice. No doubt the Soviet Government was far more worldly and realistic. But the fact of being a Christian implies a faith that in the end all mankind, including Russia, must be pervaded by religious belief. It was just possible that in adding to their list of religious well-wishers, the hardheaded commissars were inviting the innocence of doves to triumph over the wisdom of serpents...
...doubt that Lieut. Hawkins has carefully studied the U.N. charter, Yalta, Teheran, the history of southeastern and central Europe, sociology and economics, so that I can be certain on his word that Russia is obviously and entirely in the wrong...
There was still plenty of doubt about Harry Truman's political shrewdness in national politics, but at the congressional district level-and in his own Missouri stamping grounds-he had proved that he could still figure out where the power lay. His personally picked candidate for Congress in Missouri's Fifth District, a political novice named Enos Axtell, scored a decisive victory in the Democratic primary over Princeton-bred Representative Roger Slaughter, who had hacked away mercilessly at the Truman program in Congress...