Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even without McCarthy's leadership, the Committee would be a poor investment for America's trust. Any group sent out to investigate at whim is bound to tread on the toes of privacy and decency, if only to find enough topics to justify its existence...
During the 1945-46 revolt of the admirals over unification of the services, Eisenhower (for unification) and Radford (against) were bitter foes, but Eisenhower has since come to admire and trust Radford's clear thinking and professional ability. A strong second contender for chairman: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 61, the Air Force's first chief of staff, a shrewd strategist, who would have to come out of retirement to take...
Judge McLaughlin directed Plywacki to take a coin out of his pocket. "What does it say on the back?" he demanded. When Plywacki had read the legend, "In God We Trust," Judge McLaughlin made a little speech...
Throughout the play, they and the general speak out ideas about loyalty, trust, obligation; and though some of the ideas are disguised as fooling, and the emotion sometimes breaks through in torrid verbiage, more often the lines seem cold and academic. They are important ideas, challouging, but they seem out of books, not warm breasts...
...incapable of inductive thinking. He believes that the end can never justify the means largely because he is incapable of being so moved by a passion that it seems more important that anything else. He, who never existed, dreams back to a world of chivalry and personal trust which also never existed. His language should be direct and unequivocal; but Chapman and Coxe have given him too many flowery metaphors, words he should never utter. Yet Stewart is able to put the general's spirit into these lines...