Word: faithfully
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This is not to romanticize the early 1960s nor to obscure either Kennedy's personal flaws or the fact that his actions sometimes didn't match his soaring rhetoric. But that rhetoric still resonates because it put forth a faith that the highest duty of government, and of us all, was to improve the common weal. It was rhetoric which helped energize the nation because it was spoken by a politician who said proudly that "I do have a great liking for the word 'politics'.... It's the way a president gets things done...
...gave her a very fair chance," Han says. "But she's made it very difficult for us to believe she is working with us in a good faith effort...
...came as a reporter and mis-represented herself to be a tutor [to the superintendant] and wanted access to the house office," said Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem, who is also Bigelow professor of ichthyology. "She was admitted because we in good faith believed she was a tutor, but she isn't. So she came in under false pretenses...
...Zion, but the first to connect it with worship of the one true God. The building of the Temple was a statement of the meaning and permanence of Jewish belief against the threatening tide of paganism. For nearly 2,000 years, as the Jews made themselves into a faith and a nation with Jerusalem as their capital, the city represented the promise of final salvation and the soul of their identity. That very veneration begot a fierce possessiveness and, when the Temple was lost, a perpetual desire to return...
Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto...