Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they won a majority, either in their own right or with the help of dissident pro-Leopold Liberals, the Catholics promised to call for a popular "advisory" referendum on the royal question. No one seemed to doubt that Leopold would get a majority in such a plebiscite...
When American "educators" proceed to draw a this line, between intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity...
...Without the shadow of a question or a doubt, it is the late Mahatma (Great Souled) Gandhi...
...were monotonous in content. George Marshall, Robert Lovett, Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, British Socialist Hugh Dalton, all said, in effect: "They couldn't have picked a better man." Some of McCIoy's friends, however, were sorry he took the job. McCloy knows it's tough. "No doubt about it," he said last week, "it's going to be a windy corner...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...