Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinary folk have overwhelming faith that their Prime Minister will solve not only national but also personal problems. They collect on his lawn every morning, and usually get to hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...
Newspaper editors had spotted a trend. A little belatedly, they had found that the book trade's success with religious titles was no fluke, but the result of insecurity and searching for faith in a war-torn world...
...Faith & Hope. Nelson Rockefeller, who with his brothers has launched his own private Point Four program in South America (TIME, Jan. 31), testified that he was also wholeheartedly in favor of Point Four. It was the promise of renewed "faith and hope that free peoples can work together . . . We cannot go on indefinitely subsidizing our exports by giving away dollars...
...books for many years the Sherman antitrust law. The Du Pont Company is ... heartily in favor of that law . . . Unfortunately . . . the ideology of enforcement is left to the shifting winds of political thought . . . Business frequently finds itself attacked for acts done many years ago in all good faith and with the best legal advice available...