Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breakdown. The Communist concentration led a U.S. officer to comment: "There are still no signs that the lull in enemy activity has been directed by Hanoi as a sign of good faith. We still believe that the enemy is refitting for another offensive." Supporting his view was the fact that prisoner interrogations and captured documents continued to indicate that a November as sault was planned. The U.S., for its part, maintained its bombing raids against North Viet Nam's panhandle-roughly from the 17th to the 19th parallels. Early last week, bomber pilots flew 139 missions, the most...
...NEVER abandoned her faith in the communist system. Often, in her speeches and in private, she talks of the need for a "counter-vision with counter-values" to replace the American dream. "When I talk about the need for the people to own the means of production," she explains, "I don't mean that each worker in a factory would own the machine he works at. It's different. It's that the profits of a company, instead of going into the pockets of the owner, come back to benefit the people who work for the company...
Since the First Vatican Council of 1870, it has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals, is infallible. In the most provocative religious book of the year, Infallibility and the Evidence (Templegate; $4.95), a Catholic bishop, the Most Rev. Francis Simons of Indore in India, argues that there is no Scriptural evidence for the doctrine. He suggests that it be abandoned...
...does not always provide his anointing power. Mullins' right hand was amputated in 1953 after he was bitten by a rattler, and some church experts estimate that there may be as many as 75 snakebites a year as a result of the services. Nonetheless, the snake handlers' faith remains unshaken. They argue, in fact, that the deaths are simply God's way of answering detractors who accuse the sects of using defanged serpents. As for the late Oscar Pelfrey, says Mullins, "he died 100% in his faith." Why, then, was he bitten? "I can't explain...
They all sounded alike. All honest about their faith in the market system. All exuberant about the tremendous value of this dialogue with concerned young people. All extraordinarily proud of Dow. In pairs, they tended to play straight man for one another, laughing at each other's jokes. And they all kept repeating how wonderful it was that at Dow every man was free to think for himself...