Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Several states prohibit Bible reading in school, others insist that only the Protestant Bible be read. The committee would like to see each student study the version of his own faith...
...judge ruminatively decided that Lewis' union might still have to pay the whole $3,500,000 contempt fine, which Goldsborough had slapped on last December, if Lewis did not behave himself and show that he was acting "in good faith." The union had only been required so far to cough up $700,000 of it. The judge would wait and see how Lewis and the miners behaved themselves during the next few weeks...
Lewis did not wait long, after that. His order went out to his miners to go back. The Government announced that it would send undercover FBI agents into the coal fields to check up on their good faith...
However, the Tory futility is rooted in something far more significant to Britain's future than the political maneuvers of the moment. The hard truth is that Big-C Conservatives have lost their faith in small-c conservatism. They are now economic and political agnostics, with no new belief to replace their lost faith in free enterprise...
Said the committee: "We who write this report are members of religious bodies to which we owe allegiance by conviction. For us, the democratic faith . . . rests on a religious conception of human destiny. . . . [We] believe that the American people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed...