Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conflicts were bound to arise between a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, Harry Truman said he would be guided by "a simple formula: to do in all cases . . . without regard to political considerations, what seems to me to be for the welfare of all our people . . . I pledge faith with faith and promise to meet good will with good will...
Some stages in history seem to resemble periods in the lives of individuals. As an individual is Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...
...great part of the nineteenth century was charged with consciousness of the great moral purpose of humanity. The idea of progress, the shibboleths so political democracy and individual liberty, and, later, the yeasty doctrines of Marx and of derivative socialisms-all were conceptions based on a faith in the fundamental worth of man, his capabilities for improvement, and an altruistic desire to speed that improvement. Similarly, in the past decade of the "thirties, the American people were forced by depression to solve common problems through common action, to see the social consequences of individual actions and to become mindful...
...Austin, a tireless worker, has unflagging enthusiasm for U.N. Says he: "Practice, difficult at first, will develop into custom, custom into faith. . . ." Though an idealist (and a sentimentalist at times), Austin has a hard Yankee core, and likes to win. But, says he: "The will to win should generate the will to do justice...
...people"-and he certainly never expected it to become part of the political pharmacopoeia of the first Marxist state. Yet Stalin's Russia has made good use of the once-banned Orthodox Church in Europe and the Middle East, and recently appeared as the defender of the faith in China as well...