Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faith. In Paris, a divorce was granted to a woman who testified that her 39-year-old husband who had had a "sheltered childhood," never gave her any Christmas presents because he believed that Santa Claus would provide...
...authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution." But, announced the group carefully: "As Protestants we can be called anti-Catholic only in the sense in which every Roman Catholic is anti-Protestant. Profound differences ... of religious faith . . . have no relevancy in the pursuit of our objectives. . . . The issue of the separation of church and state has arisen in the political area, and we propose to meet it there...
...Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death could touch him in one way only. Upon realizing the imminence of defeat at Waterloo, he deliberately put himself in the way of bullets, hoping to defy fate...
...Henry Ford's "only partner," Irish Inventor Harry Ferguson had done well. Ford produced Ferguson-designed tractors, and Harry Ferguson Inc. sold them, under an unwritten agreement based on "good faith and mutual confidence...
Mistrust. What they are charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...