Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there should be [only] four, and you could have 50 as long as the four were in the group." Said George: "Mr. Secretary, on that point, I thought we had very frankly made a mistake and prayed considerable during about three days that the Communists would reject it, and fortunately the Communists did . . . I think it is a fine illustration of the efficacy of prayer." Dean Acheson was admitting no mistakes...
...write a book that wouldn't be original," Goodwin says. "When I have something new, I write a paper." But his important papers have been published only in the last two years, delayed by his stay in the Physics Department; most of them appeared after the faculty decision to reject him for permanent appointment...
...seem to imply that it is characteristic of Protestants that they reject the faith of the ages as summed up in the Apostles' Creed, and that to reach them in its bridge-desires the Episcopal Church must, at least in part, appear "embarrassed" by that Creed. This oversimplification of Protestantism is so ill-informed as to appear almost deliberately insulting. There are two kinds of Protestantism. One variety believes in the Apostles' Creed as really as does Roman Catholicism . . . The other variety rejects the ancient faith, does not accept Jesus as God-made-man or as Redeemer. Denominations...
...Protestants received the Bible from the Catholic Church, who had preserved it for 15 centuries and who had set the canon of the New Testament at the end of the 4th Century. If Protestants accept the authority of the Catholic Church in this matter, why do they reject it in others...
...afternoon, as his chauffeur was driving him home "about three-quarters drunk," Candler heard a voice "just as clearly as I ever heard anyone . . . The voice said to me, 'You must get rid of your self; you must renounce your self; you must reject your self.' These were surprising words. I should not have been surprised if the voice had commanded me to stop drinking. But this was not the message at all ... My self was my trouble-my love of myself, my fear of anything that might frustrate my wishes . . . False pride had erected a barrier between...