Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start it had looked like a shoo-in for the Stassen camp. There was so much rejoicing that "Harold is home again," so much confidence in the prestige he had gained at the San Francisco Conference, so much faith in the appeal of the Stassen war record as Admiral Halsey's flag secretary that it seemed nothing could go wrong...
...shortages was not enough. All over England local Tory meetings were saying so last week. From Carlisle on the Scottish border came a demand that Tory headquarters announce a policy that "will prove attractive to youth." Said one delegate: "We want a restatement of the Conservative Party's faith." A sympathetic echo came from Tory farmers and retired business people meeting in Worcester on the edge of Wales. In London Mrs. Mavis Tate, an ex-M.P., said: "What we want is a clearly defined policy...
...Protestantism growing stronger in its interior life-in spiritual depth, in an intelligent grasp of its faith, in the bonds which make for its solidarity? . . . Is Protestantism advancing in relation to the other forces which are competing for ascendancy in American culture? . . ." No, says Morrison; it is being outdistanced and overshadowed by its two competitors, Catholicism and secularism-and the greater of these is secularism...
...conservative-fundamentalist wing of all denominations "has, in effect, withdrawn from the cultural scene and taken its Christianity with it. . . . Thus, in a kind of cloistered isolation, conservatism has been running on the momentum of the Christian tradition, rather than on the perennial dynamics of the Christian faith." It has failed to recognize "the challenge to make Christianity intelligible and potent in the present historical situation...
...Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...