Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DECEMBER 30--Corazon Aquino is named Time magazine's "Woman of the Year," one of the planet's highest accolades. She has, Time says, singlehandedly restored the world's faith in the power of democracy to prevail over oppression...
...proportionality. This point requires an understanding of the high stakes that were involved in these student demonstrations: students could be subject to very unpleasant consequences ranging from criminal prosecutions--and sure convictions--to assignment of undesirable jobs at the end of college careers. If we had a faint faith in human rationality, we would most likely assume that students would pursue their culinary pleasures and vanity in less heroic avenues...
...Reagan Administration has insisted that the talks have nothing to do with the five U.S. hostages still held in Lebanon.* But an Iranian official told reporters in the Netherlands last week, "If the Americans show their good faith toward our revolution, it is possible that people in Lebanon who are sympathetic to us will show their goodwill toward the Americans." That sounded like Rafsanjani-style pragmatism at work. On the other hand, it clashed directly with the hard-liners' refusal to grant concessions in order to regain the funds. Meanwhile, the U.S. is caught up in its own dilemma: while...
...Faith is also the basis of her fatalism. "If someone wishes to use a bazooka on me," she once said, "it's goodbye. If it's my time to die, I'll go." In the meantime, she exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield. Her sense of religion accounts too for Aquino's uncanny patience, her willingness, while awaiting what she regards as the appointed moment, to hold onto a burning match until it singes her fingers...
...piety is very far from passivity. In 1984, returning to Mount St. Vincent College to collect an honorary degree, the mild, once bookish college girl surprised her former classmates with a forceful address. "Faith," she told them, "is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things -- with resignation, yes, but above all, with blazing serene hope...