Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your July 13 account of the Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince...
...service were Iraqi prelates of the Chaldean, Syrian, Armenian and Greek Catholic churches in dazzling crimson, black and gold vestments. The crowded congregation was almost equally divided between Christians and Moslems; there was even one rabbi. In the Middle East, tense home of three great religions that command the faith of 1.3 billion people around the world, it was a rare moment. After listening to hymns, Kassem rose and said: "Brothers ... I call on each of you, of all communities and sects composing this noble Iraqi people, to lay aside feuds and grudges and to be armed with the spirit...
...Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require an atheist to go to church...
...bitterly opposed sects are the Shiites and Sunnis, each claiming the true faith and branding the others as heretics. The Shiites acknowledge as their leaders the direct descendants of Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law, consider these imams incorruptible, infallible and immortal; since the disappearance of the last known successor of the house of Ali in 878, the Shiites wait for the "Hidden Imam" to make his earthly return. The Sunnis, on the other hand, refuse to accept divine inspiration by inheritance, recognize first the caliph as the "commander of the community," then turn to the "consensus," made...
...when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin innocently enough: a yawningly orthodor insistence that Yugoslavia must wiggle between the traps of Stalinist "bureaucratism" and "decadent" Western capitalism. But as the articles progress. Djilas begins to weaken in the marrow of his own faith; complaint turns to critique as he demands such subversive luxuries as free speech and free elections, equality of all before...