Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working definition of "statism" (see The Presidency), New York's Senator John Foster Dulles was happy to oblige. "Statism," said Dulles, "represents man's conceit that he can build better than God. God created men & women with great moral possibilities . . . But sometimes those in power lose faith in their fellow men . . . They take more & more of the fruits of human labor, so that they may, as they think, do more & more for human welfare . . . That process . . . makes human beings into mere cogs in a man-made machine...
...discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another across the conference tables, the crisis was closely documented in bushels of unhappy statistics...
Handa's fellow townsmen were impressed, too. By last month, converts from the surrounding countryside were streaming into the rickety, broken-down hut which Nagumo used as his headquarters, to be comforted by Nagumo's deity, "The August Inside of Heaven Owner God." To demonstrate their true faith, the converts always laughed when they prayed. "The spirit of the smile," glowed Nagumo, "must linger in everything...
...matter to Rome. The stubborn Affricans were considering an appeal to the Pope. Said one sharecropper, who is nominally a Communist but whose ideological reliability is subject to grave doubts: "Don Giorgio has been good to our children and risked his life for us. In him we have faith...
Without doubt, when the hour of great revelation comes, it will be most solemn, and all the Christian world will hail it with renewed manifestations of faith and gratitude." These words over the Vatican radio last week heightened the anticipation that was spreading throughout the Roman Catholic world: had the tomb...