Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Wedemeyer was done, no doubt remained among Foreign Affairs committeemen that their omnibus bill would contain I) a broad and bristling statement of U.S. global intentions, and 2) a commitment of $570 million to China, with at least $100 million earmarked for arms...
...Robert K. Bingham, is the most finished and interesting piece of fiction in the magazine. An introspective young man buys a live rabbit and gives it to his mistress, but the forgets that she has a large dog in the house. The relationship of the two animals symbolizes the doubt and fear in the man's mind, and the story becomes at times terrifying by placing brutality in the limited world of the animals...
...Relief did not come until 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, one of the few American Presidents who took a public interest in poetry, became enthusiastic over Robinson's verse and found him a sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some of the suffering, the agony and the terrible consumption of human resources that go to make a poet in America...
With prospects for HDC performance at the Brattle Hall Playhouse still in doubt, Dramatic Club officials entered negotiations to present "The Survivors" at a downtown theater. Several veterans' organizations may join with the HDC in bringing the Irwin Shaw war play to Boston for a week...
Widener, which controls the House libraries, would have all believe that their inadequacies are caused by light-fingered local students. No doubt it is a temptation to pick up a book and leave, knowing that in five out of the seven House libraries no one will life a finger to stop you. But the libraries are as much to blame for this situation as are the students. Library monitors are not being paid merely to work at a private desk and maintain the silence of the reading room. They should check all books leaving the premises, as does Widener...