Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, only six months ago, an imaginative member of the Chinese Politburo summed up his government's agricultural policies in a Peasant Poem, and no one inside China at the time was of a mind to doubt a single line of it. In 1959, Peking had declared, the nation's farms would outproduce by 40% even last year's staggering claim of 375 million tons of grain, which was already said to be nearly double the output of 1957. Western specialists were inclined to view this as exaggeration piled upon exaggeration (TIME...
...Congregationalist mission that is run by an ordained minister. The experiment is so far out that many a Congregationalist would question whether the Bread and Wine Mission of San Francisco's North Beach district is in the church at all. But the Rev. Pierre Delattre has no doubt whatever about...
...life of St. Paul, and he has already picked his leading man: Frank Sinatra. "I'll admit that at first Sinatra seems a little offbeat for the role," says Capra. "When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth of feeling, and when you remember what kind of man St. Paul was when he started out -he started out as a heel, you know-it doesn't sound so farfetched...
British economists doubt that exports will continue to rise at their current rate, fear that the trade balance may turn around again when raw material prices rise and import demand in Britain picks up as a result of economic expansion. But Britain is clearly out of its balance-of-trade crisis, and the outlook ahead-in the best British tradition-is solid without being spectacular...
...industry pumped out the goods to consumers, even the troubled railroads looked for good times ahead. By last week a series of successive jumps brought carloadings up to a point almost 13% ahead of last year. There was no doubt that the boom was still picking up speed...