Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work of trying to help must go on, and, as Massachusetts welfare administrators point out, the new program is responding quickly to more and more abuse cases. But the case workers, drowning in individual woe, do not find much personal reassurance in statistics. Nor do they have much faith in the capability of most of the social means available to cure repetitive cruelty to children. As a group, child defenders seem to be afflicted, in fact, by what is, or used to be, a most un-American emotion, a tormenting sense of the ultimate futility of even their most constructive...
...disaffiliation has these roots and others as well and it casts a longer shadow. We are coming to the end of the twentieth century, and the knowledge we bear weighs heavy. Part of our knowledge is the realization that systems, technological and ideological, in which we had such faith, have their limits, and that we may have reached those limits and are being left with only the fragments of our hopes. We are closing not only a century but also a millennium, and the accumulated force of that realization heightens a certain apolcalyptic impulse, a febrile fatigue...
...last under-60 Pope, Pius IX, reigned for 32 years. At age 58, Wojtyla is robust and muscular (he was described in the national daily The Australian as "a man built like a rugby front-row forward"), and it thus seemed possible that he could lead his faith into the 21st century. Plainly, the Cardinals had opted for a long pontificate. Just as plainly, they had chosen a man of extraordinary qualities and experience. A newspaper in Lima, Peru, greeted Wojtyla's election with the headline LABORER POET ACTOR PRIEST POPE. That and more: quarryman and factory work...
Today, after 31 years of Communist government, Poland has more than 20,000 Catholic priests-6,000 more than it had on the eve of war in 1938-and some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...points, to 838, its worst one-week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...