Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had pulled off a few miracle comebacks that year. The team scored three touchdowns in 41 seconds against Holy Cross to win, 28-20. But with the Crimson falling behind, I still had faith...
...attitude toward drugs indicates a dangerous trend in the way Americans view the law. People seem to believe that the laws, passed by their elected representatives, ought to be obeyed only when convenient. An atmosphere of evasion--in taxes and business regulations as well as drugs--is replacing a faith that laws are passed for a greater good than mere momentary pleasures...
...Puritans believed that everyone was intolerant. People differed only in what they held important. To a Puritan, religion was supreme--to be tolerant therefore was to be untrue to one's own faith. Today, however, open-mindedness can easily become apathy. The best way to really learn what one believes, of course, is to find out what others believe--and then judge...
Keeping the faith is one way descendants, particularly the older ones, so mindfully tend ancestral memories. "Preserving our heritage helps us hold on to cherished values and pass them on to future generations," said the FDA's official historian, Judith MacKnight Jones, 71. She has chronicled the Confederate immigration to Brazil in a book titled Soldado Descansa (Soldier Rest). With a certainty that transcends national labels, she adds, "And that's important in a world where values are changing for the worse...
Those who still believe in the slogans see their faith tested daily. By every economic measure imaginable, the country has become considerably poorer since 1979. The purchasing power of the average person with a job has declined to less than 20% of what it was in 1980. Food and fuel are tightly rationed. A few weeks ago the gas allowance, obtained with coupons bearing a portrait of Che Guevara, was cut from 20 to 17 gal. a month. Earlier this year, the government-subsidized rice ration was reduced to 1 lb. a person a month, down from 5 lbs. three...