Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all else, Knowland brings to his leadership post an absolute, unflinching integrity that rises above politics. It inspires faith in his motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese...
Jensen's Gym. Afterward came the expected promise that Sugar Ray will try again in a return match with Fullmer. But only stubborn pride can suggest that he will ever do any better against the tireless young elder of the Mormon Church who, true to his faith, has never touched tobacco or whisky. Gene Fullmer was named for his parents' idol, gentleman Gene Tunney (whose real name is James Joseph), but he grew up to admire a different type of heavyweight, man-eater Jack Dempsey. At the age of eight he decided he wanted to become a prizefighter...
...were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17 party Deputies lost their seats in Bonn. Last year it broke the story of Prince Bernhard's rift with Queen Juliana, of The Netherlands over Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom it has bitterly opposed, had accepted favors from French secret service agents. Adenauer dropped defamation charges when the magazine announced publicly that it had not intended...
...only as a document of faith but as a legacy of art, the murals are extraordinary. The costumes pictured and some of the painting conventions (e.g., the painted frames surrounding each mural) resemble Persian art of the period. But the paintings as a whole show a transition between the easeful grace of Greek and Roman art and the frozen stiffness of later Byzantine figures. Meanings are conveyed strikingly, as when "the hand of the Lord" takes the shape of several free-floating, detached hands looming above Ezekiel. The coloring is subdued, never garish, subtly harmonious...
...kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...