Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy which guarantees maximum protections against resurgent Axis aggressors, and which dramatically offers specific guaranties as an earnest of American good faith. It is a demilitarization policy. It is a policy which now substitutes justice for vengeance in these formulas of peace; which now insists upon ethnic recognitions that no longer traffic in the lives and destinies of helpless peoples; and which spurns expansionism as a plague upon tomorrow's peace and security. It is a policy which invites all of our partners in the war-instead of a closed corporation of big powers-to have a proper voice...
...Eastern European states it controls) the party is an arm of the police power, spying on the people, weeding out whatever might compete with the delusions of Kremlin propaganda. In Britain and the U.S., Communism is part pressure group, part underground conspiracy carried on by men who conceal their faith...
...left last September to become Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, had his work cut out for him. He not only had to repair neighborly relations. He had to get the jaunty Strong Man to abolish Nazi influence in Argentina, and to give real guarantees of good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension-with two brief exceptions-since right after Pearl Harbor...
...many of his walks at St. George's, Diman searched his soul for answers to some private questions of faith. An appendicitis attack decided him. He summoned a Roman Catholic priest, told him: "If I'm going to die, I'd rather die in the Catholic Church than out of it." After World War I service as a captain (with the Red Cross), he headed for Rome and the priesthood. At 63, Father Diman entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, where he cleaned corridors, dug ditches and performed penances with novices...
...Athanasius, who almost singlehanded swung the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) against the Arians* and made the doctrine of the Trinity the belief of all orthodox Christianity. In the 17th Century the Copts became prisoners of Islam. Millions of Copts were persecuted and driven from their faith by ridicule, taxes, restrictions. The Coptic language all but disappeared; the tongue of the Pharaohs survives today only in the long Coptic Mass, where it is chanted to the sound of cymbals and triangles. Coptic churches tried to escape attention by being outwardly drab, tucked into back alleys, though gorgeous within...