Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for self-justification. This urge to prove oneself right "has always jiggled the Chinese sense of the ludicrous." The Chinese rated human-heartedness ahead of righteousness, felt that one could not be right without also being wrong. "At the roots of Chinese life there is a trust in the good-and-evil of one's own nature which is peculiarly foreign to those brought up with the chronic uneasy conscience of the Hebrew-Christian cultures...
...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...
...church hierarchy to attempt an explanation. In a nationwide broadcast, Jesuit Father Ulpiano López, an expert in canon law, declared: "The validity of marriage depends exclusively on the mutual consent and surrender of the two persons who give themselves to each other in love and trust." If consent is obtained by means of falsehoods or threats, the act of marriage is invalid. He cited the case of a man who was compelled to marry under threat of death. The church can declare a marriage null if it finds a condition invalidating it at its inception, concluded Father...
...Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into such Brazilian subsidiaries as Squibb, Dunlop, Willys, General Tire, Lone Star Cement, I.T.&T. and Brazilian department-store, telephone, textile, cement and steel companies. Dauphinot's salesmen also sell investment trust shares for as little as 100 cruzeiros...
...life's work. From his underweight salary-never more than $2,000 a year-and some shrewd investments, he had scraped together an impressive estate that, by his wife's death in 1902, had swelled to $161,169. His will directed that it be given in trust to the Historical Society to continue the project...