Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native New Yorker who feels that way about it is TIME'S Terry Drucker, who researched the story. Her faith was somewhat shaken, however, by paragraphs like the following one, in which the writer left the facts for her to fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...
...believed in "collective security against aggression"; they would support U.N.; they "welcomed Israel into the family of nations"; they would "cherish" friendship with China; and "relentlessly pursue our aims for the universal limitation and control of arms and implements of war on a basis of reliable discipline against bad faith...
...conclusion, said the G.O.P.: "Guided by these principles, with continuing faith in Almighty God, united in the spirit of brotherhood and using the skills, resources and blessings of liberty with which we are endowed, we the American people will courageously advance to meet the challenge of the future...
...Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed, or slowness, with which the touchy Dutch reopened negotiations...
Like many left-wingers, Laski has taken varying attitudes toward the U.S.S.R., ranging from piously articulate fellow-traveling to skeptical hostility (his Secret Battalion, published in 1946, was a blistering attack on the British Communist Party). But he has never for a moment lost his faith in the idea of a planned society nor his energy in tub-thumping for one. Much of his writing, like many of his public utterances, has been neat propaganda, smartly concocted and adroitly delivered. But periodically he has written studies in which his intelligence and historical erudition have loomed much larger than his slicker...