Word: tude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could be something else." McCormack noted approvingly that McElroy's atti tude showed "some relaxation" in the U.S. position...
...Algeria's civil war, now in its third inconclusive year, there are no front lines, no territorial objectives, no general rules to restrain belligerents-only a war of repression and attrition. Result: a sentiment d'inquieétude spreading through France, based on the growing realization that while the Algerian struggle is one the French cannot afford to lose, it is also probably one they cannot win. Also spreading is the feeling that the 380,000-man French army in Algeria, reduced to waging a gloryless police action, is using cruel and cynical methods in totting...
...history at the University of Grenoble, took the equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character in an un published short story...
Part of the inquiétude he wrote about was disillusion with the church. But ten years later Daniel-Rops had found in Catholicism "a conception of the world . . . a system of thinking . . . a basis for civilization." The church-centered histories, biographies and novels that have poured from him since have contributed much to the new stirrings of religion in anticlerical France, where, he feels, "there is a new kind of Catholic movement afoot. It's not organized, but deep...
...program. He was the only governor in the nation who refused to declare a United Nations Day. He has consistently fought any increase in taxes, no matter what the need might be. But of all the stands that Lee has taken, none has stirred such storms as his atti tude towards Utah's public schools...