Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjusted his horn-rimmed glasses, glanced at a vase of scarlet flowers on the white-covered table, then slowly read his victory message to "the people and armies of China." Said Chiang: ". . . Our faith in justice through black and hopeless days and eight long years of struggle has today been rewarded. . . . We have won the victory...
...This is the spirit of serving the nation with seven lives-that is, Kusunoki, Masashige's spirit, and the faith of Hojo Tokimune that life springs from nonexistence, indestructibility from destruction...
...altar, he is perfectly willing to sacrifice, if necessary, the Western ideal of freedom. But he spends much time rationalizing the sacrifice. Wrote Laski last year: "If the Communist Party of the Soviet Union left the central principle of its faith to the chance decision of an electorate . . . that would be as remarkable as a willingness on the part of Western democracies to see without repining the access of socialist parties to the state power...
Thus, with a reminder that Hitler was one of the first modern men to grasp the significance of the decay of Christian faith, the Yale University Christian Association last week asked alumni to give their moral and financial support to a postwar religious program just recommended by a faculty committee of eleven...
...Yale is looking for a venture which will be acclaimed for its leadership and vision in the country and in the world," said the committee, "we believe that this is the venture. ... A study of prayer, faith and deeds will be no less profitable than the same sort of study in economics and agriculture...