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Word: faintheartedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the visible health and prosperity of existing denominations, there is a considerable number of future-oriented theologians who feel that the church, in large parts of the world, is entering a stage of Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

At any rate, short selling is no game for novices or the fainthearted. The most that a buyer of stock stands to lose, even if his shares crash to zero, is his original investment. But the short seller's risk is unlimited, since technically there is no ceiling on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: To the Last Drop | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

THE NAKED PREY. Director-Star Cornel Wilde is the quarry hunted by native warriors in a stirring, single-minded African adventure drama, uncluttered with fainthearted blondes or false heroics.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

The only survivor is Wilde. In a primitive sporting gesture, the natives free the courageous white man without clothes, weapons or water-and with ten stalwart young spearsmen poised to track him down. Hunted now, the hunter begins to run, and Prey gathers fierce momentum as a classic, single-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man Hunt | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Professional bears, they are usually big round-lot (100 shares or more) speculators who wager that the market will drop. They borrow stock through other brokers and sell it at, say, $10 a share, hoping to replace the borrowed shares later by buying them back at a lower price, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: FIVE KINDS OF INSIDERS | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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