Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lynd termed the view that the middle class is the faith and hope of America as "just plain applesauce." Once this group was a powerful progressive force, but since the death of frontier democracy, the middle class has been crushed between the power of both "big business" and "big labor...
...this meant nothing if Congress did not vote the money. And the Navajos had little faith in high-sounding plans. The Government had welshed on its promises before. Last year, a group of old men had gone to Congress and asked: "What is to be done with the Navajo people?" Congress had replied by doing nothing...
...liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...
Author Mauriac is no peddler of religious tracts; one need not share his faith to appreciate his virtues as a novelist. Few of his characters achieve spiritual peace, but they get rid of the self-deception that stands...
...implement the actual meetings, which will consist of 45 minute talks followed by question periods, the entire group will be invited to attend typical religious services of each of the faiths. First of these will be a visitation to a Jewish service on Friday evening. November 7, and the succeeding visits will be scheduled for the Sunday following the date when each particular faith is up for discussion...