Word: entrusting
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...looks it. Still handsomely distinguished at 54, he looks and talks like the epitome of a well-bred gentleman. It is easy, as he leans back in his chair reflecting on a question, to see him as the image of Wisdom and Moderation--the kind of man you could entrust a Cezanne collection to with the assurance that it would be put to the best of all possible uses...
...defendant union, powerful though it may be, is nevertheless insufficiently powerful to disdain with impunity the law and the court. Ironic indeed is the fact that this basic lesson in elementary civics must be taught anew to, of all pupils, the very persons to whom we daily entrust our offspring for training and development as the leaders of tomorrow." So wrote New York Supreme Court Justice Emilio Nunez last week as he ruled against the United Federation of Teachers for ignoring a court injunction and striking New York City's public schools. U.F.T. President Albert Shanker was given...
Think how simple and simpatico James Bond is (he eats, sleeps, kills, drives a car). And how much sadism his movies get away with. The sadism could be even more serious if Bond weren't amoral. Nobody can entrust his heart, even for a picayune 90 minutes, to a man who doesn't give a damn. So the camera can't linger over the agony he creates (a knife in the back) or escapes (poison in the tea). Bond has our sympathy only in limited amounts...
Judge: The law guarantees freedom of religion, and the teaching of religion is allowed by our [proCommunist] peace priests. But nobody can expect the state to entrust these functions to persons who by their behavior have shown themselves as sworn enemies of the state...
...Jews and Christians alike, the significance of God's covenant with the Jews is one of history's great theological mysteries. Why did the Creator entrust his revelation to an obscure tribe of ancient Palestine? Why have the chosen people become a nation of exile, torment and holocaust? Just published in the U.S. is one of the century's most profound and moving attempts to unravel the meaning of Judaism: This People Israel, by the late Rabbi Leo Baeck (Holt, Rinehart & Winston...