Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons most frequently cited for switching to the Democratic nominee were health, Vice President Nixon, the "Wall Street cabinet," and a general faith in the Democratic Party...
...which both of his eyes were removed. The son of a factory worker, David has been gradually losing his vision from the time he was three months old. The New York specialists who operated on him gave him a 50-50 chance to live. Said Mrs. Anderson: "I had faith all along. I feel God is going to let us have our baby...
...however, sponsors have dropped the qualifying "disclaimer" or have found means of skirting the principle of the code; e.g., just before the show goes off the air, comes a vague rider: "Portions of tonight's commercials were dramatized," a device not likely to destroy the listener's faith in the pince-nezed pitchman with the stethoscope...
...chat ter of its young from the Bronx locutions of Arthur Kober. Abraham is a patriarch in the classic mold-huge, fork-bearded, devout. When two of his sons are mur dered in a pogrom, he flees from the Ukraine to Canada. The tragedy briefly robs Abraham of his faith in God, turns his wife Sarah into a mindless zombie, and weighs down the frail shoulders of his remaining son, Isaac, with the necessity of making up for the loss of his talented brothers...
...this first novel, Canadian-born. 28-year-old Author Adele Wiseman, currently a social worker in Britain, grapples with darker mysteries - of a man's relationship with his son, of his duty to and faith in his God - than she has yet power to illuminate. For much of the book, Abraham strides forward with Old Testament credibility. But toward the novel's end, tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly...