Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dickie Bland to be their mayor. "Nelson doesn't like Dickie's principles," said one townsman, "but it does like Dickie." Beyond ordaining vegetarian menus at official luncheons and showing his disgust at puffed clouds of tobacco smoke, Dickie has returned the town's trust by keeping his convictions to himself as far as possible. However, he promised, "if anything comes along .during my term as mayor that makes me feel I couldn't mix my office with my principles, I will resign...
...trust," said present House Speaker Sam Rayburn, "that there will not be a show made of this thing...
Apartment rates may rise, however, in certain student-occupied rooms because of building improvements, an official of the Harvard Housing Trust said yesterday. The rents for 173 units occupied by families of University students will definitely increase, he noted...
...There is too much "noisy religiosity on the public level" in the U.S., said Dean James A. Pike of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York City). "When we put 'In God We Trust' on our postage stamps, open up a meditation room in the U.S. capitol, and make constant reference to spiritual values and then fail to live up to our words with our deeds, we give an impression of hypocrisy to the rest of the world...
...rehearsals went on, it was soon clear that members of the cast were gaining inner satisfaction from watching Captain Queeg, the man in position of responsibility and trust, break down under stress. As Psychiatrist Edward R. Miller explains it, this helped many patients to feel that "it could happen to anyone"-so they felt less different themselves. Also, they enjoyed the humbling of a "father-figure," for many had troubles that traced back to their own fathers or other authoritarian figures. Best of all, characters in the play were able to act out their hostility to Father-Figure Queeg without...