Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight has been a cascade of letters to Congress and the White House. Significantly enough, several Congressional committees have now visited the Navajo reservation. Another result, of course, has been the multitude of contributions from all over the U.S. for Navajo relief. In case there could be any doubt of their necessity, a letter we have received from the justly famed American Friends Service Committee speaks for the accuracy of the press' reporting: ". . . One of our representatives . . . [has] returned from a trip he made for us to the Navajo territory. He confirmed everything that TIME had revealed...
...House went to work on amendments this week, there was no doubt that the interim aid bill would pass, eventually-in just about the shape the Senate had already approved. Meanwhile, the bitterest congressional foes of Communism seemed curiously determined to play the obstructionist role which would best suit the Communist game...
Said one participant later: "There is not the slightest shadow of a doubt in my mind that Eisenhower is running for President. There isn't any doubt either that he seized upon this occasion to register that impression with Pennsylvania political leaders...
Human After All. Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs...
Must a poet be mad? Doctors, many of whom are sane, doubt it. The British Royal College of Physicians, in a clinically solemn discussion of the creative mind, recently came to the conclusion that writers are not as crazy as they like to think they...