Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Who Killed King" [April 26] attributes the following quotation to me regarding James Earl Ray: "Extremely dangerous, cold-blooded and ruthless. There is no doubt in my mind that Ray could be a paid assassin." I made none of these remarks and used none of these descriptive adjectives regarding...
...have finally been exposed at this year's Masters Golf Tournament [April 26]. It is inconceivable to me that a person could lose a golf tournament on the mere fact that he didn't relate his score correctly on a little piece of paper. Is there any doubt that Roberto de Vicenzo had the same score as Bob Goalby or that his play merited a playoff round to determine the just winner? This gross injustice is a mockery of sportsmanship...
There is little doubt that William Gass is speaking for himself when one of the characters in this collection of short stories says: "I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath. Body equals being, and if your weight goes down, you are the less." Coming from a man who makes his living teaching philosophy at Purdue University, such a flat-out assertion seems a little unusual. But then William James pledged in his diary to "care little for speculation; much for the form of my action...
There also is little doubt that there's been a qauntum jump in the volume of this work in the last three or four years--partly because of the draft, partly too because students are a bit more alert to possibilities like VISTA or the Peace Corps. The present vogue is to apply to at least ten medical schools and House Masters find their desks piled high with requests for recommendations from alumni two or three years out of college...
Today's running events should produce some excitement, even though the outcome of the meet is hardly in doubt. There's speculation that today's the day for the Baker and/or Shaw four-minute mile. The two runners are scheduled to run both the mile and the half-mile, but Coach Bill McCurdy may decide to take them out of the shorter race for an all-out assault on four minutes...