Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State he wielded this weapon brilliantly-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Indo-China, Malaya, Austria, Formosa Strait, Lebanon, Berlin. He built up even more commanding influence because he wrapped up the political, military, economic and moral complexities of cold war into his own fighting faith. "Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate," said John Foster Dulles. "If we demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
...contrast, the Western notion of good faith was symbolized at West Germany's Cologne-Bonn airport when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, en route from successful visits to London and Paris, was personally welcomed by West Germany's rocklike Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Said Dulles warmly: "It is not necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth...
...Manhattan's off-Broadway Royal Playhouse, Anna's little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant...
...most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige for himself, but as an essential Christian ministry. This will call for imagination and courage and deep faith; yet it is the way to a satisfying adventure...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a faith healer who suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions...