Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train scraped and groaned to a stop, and out climbed the vanguard of 900 solemn men, women and children, arms laden with bundles, eyes filled with bewilderment and doubt. What they saw gave them no cause for rejoicing: a bleak wilderness surrounded by stern, snowcapped mountains, and in the wilderness a dismal tent city sprawling in the mud under a dour sky. This was the Matanuska Valley, 50 miles northeast of Anchorage, in south-central Alaska. This was the promised land-promised by the wide-eyed Federal Emergency Relief Administration to depression-ridden, red-blooded American families who wanted...
...doubt very much whether the New Testament writers were as subtle or as self-conscious as some commentators would make them appear," writes the Rev. John Bertram Phillips. "They would be, or indeed perhaps are, amazed to learn what meanings are sometimes read back into their simple utterances!" Anglican Phillips' attempt to make these utterances simple to 20th century readers is The New Testament in Modern English (Macmillan; $6), which last week was headed for the bestseller list...
Police Chief Francis Moore commented, "It was a professional job." "There's no doubt," he added, "that this dynamiting is connected with integration of the school...
There is little doubt that Skypeck was the difference in this battle. He was an excellent field general and personally accounted for 145 of Cornell's 310-yard total offense. If Cornell had played with an ordinary quarterback, the Crimson would probably have won; the way things turned out, the varsity was fortunate to hold on as well as it did.TOM SKYPECK (11) rushes into the end zone for Cornell's second touchdown, as CHET BOULRIS (40), LARRY REPSHER (14) and SAM HALABY (30) are caught going the wrong way. The play started from the Crimson five-yard line...
...there is any doubt about the weather tomorrow, the burden of making a decision will fall upon Charles Segar, acting commissioner in the absence of the convalescent Ford Frick...