Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once the U.S. moved to keep faith with the gallant rebels by offering economic aid "very fast" if requested, by placing before the U.N. Security Council "the situation in Hungary." In-extraordinary Sunday session the Council voted 9-1 (Russia) with Yugoslavia abstaining, to put the complaint on the agenda for prompt debate...
...this is madness-this policy of trying to preserve peace by a preponderance of terror. And what is it going to do to mankind in the process-bone cancer, deformed children, sterility?" Instead, Stevenson said, the way to peace lies amid the faith, confidence and rising standards of living of the have-not peoples, "the millions of people who tremble on the sidelines of this mad arms race in helpless terror and expanding hunger...
...correspondents coined their own titles for the standard phrases, e.g., "the old shoe" for his statement that the U.S. "has prosperity and peace to boot," "the weight-lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just isn't in the same league with President Eisenhower...
...Faith? "Islam was generated as a new faith," says Cragg, "because of the conviction that a new one there must be. But why?" A bitter, running dispute between Christian factions in Arabia scandalized the non-Christian population, and Christian ideas had made no lasting impression on the Arabs among whom Mohammed was,born. "Perhaps in the formative years of Mohammed's quest," says Cragg, "a more virile, a less dubious Christianity could have satisfied his sense of need and obviated the great 'other' that Islam became." Later, Christian assaults in the form of the Crusades taught Islam...
...Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that God would let his prophet suffer ignominy and defeat at the hands of his detractors, accept Christ's immolation: crucifixion was no proper fate for a prophet. So Moslem tradition holds that someone, perhaps...