Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least a majority of them -- are idiots, betrayers of their country's future, misperceivers of their own best interests, ignorant about the issues, gulled by slick lies. Unless, of course, there's an upset. In that case, the voters have magnificently exercised their ingrained popular wisdom, vindicated the faith of the Founding Fathers, demonstrated the innate genius of democracy, etc., etc., etc. I knew it all along. Regarding my candidate for Senator, kindly reverse those two explosions of prejudice...
There are conflicting historical reports. Each dictionary claims that the Khazars converted to its faith, Christian, Islamic or Jewish, and fails to mention the names of the representatives of the other two faiths who also attempted to persuade the Khazars...
...operations are very much a product of their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware of the damage to American prestige and fair-play values that can be the permanent byproduct of unwise subversion and military intervention...
...Ronald Reagan, while smoothing off some of its rough ideological edges. Dukakis offers more of a risk and potentially more of a reward. His selection would mark a return to more communal values, as the nation gave liberalism another chance to adapt to a changed environment and redeem its faith in activist Government...
...Honestly, the question before the council is, `Do we have faith that Harvard students will make, given the opportunity, a wise decision about the council's leadership and about the council's future?'," said Frank E. Lockwood '89, chairperson of the services committee. "I believe the answer...