Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine unscheduled stops so that he could press more flesh. "Hi, I love you," he said over and over. Nobody who saw Carter's scratched and swollen hands or the lines of fatigue etching his face in the dawn at places like rain-drenched Lynxville Lock, Wis., could doubt that he was working at least as hard on this vacation as at the White House. But Carter obviously found the journey invigorating. On the bow deck as the Delta Queen paddled down the river, mostly at a stately 3 m.p.h., the President bobbed up at each toot from...
Before I'll pay what they want me to I'll just live without it, 'Cause I'll never doubt, You can't ration nothing I ain't done without...
Replied Leach wryly: "That is a unique and thoughtful approach, but I doubt whether it would be widely embraced." At several stops, Leach asked for a show of hands on whether the Federal Government should help the ailing Chrysler Corp. in its financial troubles. Insisted an insurance man in the town of Washington: "They should have the same right to go broke as I do." Nevertheless, the vote there was 18 to 10 in favor of a federal loan guarantee for Chrysler...
When a DC-10 falls out of a clear blue sky and kills 275 people, as American Flight 191 did in Chicago last May, there is no doubt that the victims' families will be financially compensated for their loss. The multimillion-dollar question is how much. By last week, American Airlines and McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturers of the DC-10, had offered $30 million to the families of 112 victims if they would settle instead of go to court, and more settlement offers are forthcoming. What the airline and the air plane builder are trying to avoid...
...that it will take him all day to try the case. "All day" turns out to be five hours. After hearing the witnesses, White says he cannot be sure whether the defendant is guilty or innocent, so he has to find him not guilty, using the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. The prosecutor says he has witnesses ready for another trial, but White curtly rebuffs him. It is 2:30 in the afternoon. The judge adjourns court...