Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leads to Arthur Bernard Langlie, longtime governor of Washington, who promises to work in the Senate for a different kind of future, who looks down his sharp nose at federal aid to states, scorns huge Government-run public-power programs, and plasters the state with a simple but stern motto: "High Office Demands High Principle...
...young Belgian girl was about to begin her novitiate in an order of nuns whose motto is "Pray and Work," the Superior General gravely warned her: "It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature." Mistaking a will to do good for a vocation to serve God in the cloister, Gabrielle Van der Mal took 17 years to realize that she was not cut out for it. Renunciation of the world did not bring presence of the spirit, and the quest for selflessness became an unwitting...
...legislative committee released its findings. It gave the prison a clean bill of health, restricted its criticism to the fact that the guards used profanity and "on occasions" slapped the prisoners. It asked that these practices stop. But for all the moderate words, Georgia (the state motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation) and the U.S. would search a long time before they found evidence to outweigh the act of 41 desperate...
...What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?" Secretary Chase's response was the motto, "In God We Trust," which first appeared on the bronz two-cent pieces...
Last year Congress made the slogan compulsory for all coins and paper cur rency (TIME, June 20, 1955). Last week the Senate passed a bill making it the official motto of the U.S. Said Wyoming' Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney reporting on the bill for the Judiciary Committee: "It will be of great spiritua and psychological value to our country...