Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates had only one certainty: if Iran was not allowed to speak up in meeting,, no small nation could ever put its trust...
...hitched his wagon to the Generalissimo's star, won the rising leader's trust by tireless intelligence work for the Kuomintang Army. In 1934 he organized China's Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages...
...Evjue's exhaled outbursts and inhaled inconsistencies. Evjue fights on labor's side, but is always fighting with labor. To compose his bristling editorials, he stomps around the office, dictating at the top of his voice to a stenographer across the room. His staffers can't trust him to keep a confidential memo out of print, and take massive doses of his abuse. They had to plead for years to get "desks big enough for three-syllable words." But they never get fired...
...gold-brocaded chair bestowing blessings on the throng, bearers piled glittering diamonds on the other side of the scale. Their value was about $2,200,000. Fifty thousand Ismaili, crowded into Bombay for the occasion, were humbly grateful when the Aga Khan gave the money back to them, in trust...
...LOVE. Another inscription said: FEED MY SHEEP. The minister, an advanced thinker, said this meant that "people should have a living wage and good housing conditions." When Gladys asked him if, by praying, she could prevent her G.I. boy friend from being killed, the minister muttered: "Just trust God. All is well," and hurried away. Soon after, the boy friend was killed...