Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Segni Cabinet by proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only 275 out of 587 Deputies, Segni had little choice but to resign...
...Germany with atomic retaliation if they allow NATO to base atomic weapons on their territories. One by one, the ministers of the threatened countries scornfully declared their rejection of the Soviet threats. Said Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange proudly: "If the Russian intent was to weaken the faith of the Norwegian public in NATO, the effect has been exactly the opposite...
Poll taxes, over-severe literacy tests for voters and concealment of information about times and places of registration were branded "political demagoguery in its worst form." Churchgoers were reminded that "the Christian faith has never countenanced racial discrimination," and that "the supreme law of the land requires that it no longer be practiced in the public-school system. Therefore every member of the assembly is urged to work in his own community for an honest and durable adjustment...
...priest-shortage problem was ably presented to the hierarchy by tall, gaunt Louis-Marie Fernand de Bazelaire, 64-year-old Archbishop of Chambéry, but the solutions he had to offer seemed nothing more than restatements of the problem: a revival of faith, an appeal to the generosity of laymen, and the request that Catholic parents encourage their children to become priests or nuns...
Winner of the middleweight championship for the fourth time in his 17-year professional career, Sugar Ray grabbed the mike and laid praise about him. "I owe much to millions of people who had faith in me and who prayed for me," he said. "I owe much to Joe Louis for his moral support and knowledge of boxing. I owe much to Father Lang [the Rev. Jovian Lang of Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Seminary in Westmont, Ill.] for spiritual guidance." Robinson, explained Manager Gainford later, is a tolerant freelancer. "He will go anywhere-synagogue, Protestant Church, Catholic Church...