Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common man, he put his trust in the common people. "The men and women who made this country great and who kept it free," he said, "were plain people with courage and faith. Let us justify this heritage...
...know [if I accepted] I would not be keeping faith with the memory of my beloved husband...
...acted with exceptional bravery because he began to look on death as a pretty comfortable state. ¶ A shy, 24-year-old tank destroyer corporal was afraid of cars and girls. But he recognized his defects, read popular articles about psychoneurotics and was determined not to be one. Faith in his church, cheery letters from his sisters, and a firm belief in the strength of his armor plate kept him going until headaches and nervousness got him down. ¶ A sergeant had nightmares; he also had near-hysteria at the sight of blood. He had known about his condition since...
Playing Tigers. As Englishmen entered into "the last decade of their grandeur," Artist Ryder, with no faith to cling to, desperately sought to recapture his artistic vitality by painting in the Latin American jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...
...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...