Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit did have its defenders. In Mayfield, Ky., the Rev. Frank Cayce asked his Episcopal congregation: "Why shouldn't Eisenhower have Saud and Tito as guests? Didn't Christ associate with lepers, whores and publicans?" Editorialized the Denver Post: "A lot of Americans probably never have understood the importance of Tito as a fracture in the monolithic structure of international Communism. If so, the fault lies with our policy strategists, who have not explained the facts of the Communist struggle for power for general consumption...
...make certain the world understood that the U.S., until the final step was achieved, would continue to deal from strength, he phrased this course of action another way. Said he, commenting on the Defense Department's record peacetime military budget of $38 billion for fiscal 1958: long-range spending for planes, missiles and military research will continue "until we have some certainty that we have reached agreements that are enforceable. That is, where there is good faith on both sides, demonstrated good faith. Now after that happens, then I would expect long-range programs . . . and expenditures to come down...
...Humanism is as much of a modern blight as atheism, said Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro in an address to Catholic Action in Milan. "The development of humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place...
Israel, the letter said, is the one area in the Middle East where "Americans, American customs and American points of view are understood as the result of a common cultural heritage." The letter recalled the formation of the American-Israel Society, which arose from the conviction "that it is fundamentally important for citizens of one country to learn and remember the similarities and differences that make them what they...
Without being unduly pessimistic, one can easily conclude that the Fall Term might well be forgotten. As a case in point, the term had no sonner begun than Mr. Lloyd Jordan announced that he had adopted the "A" formation, which, as it developed, was understood to mean "awful." Then the University announced that it had taken the liberty of raising board rates $24 a year, and furthermore had inaugurated a camaign to squeeze students' cars into non-existent parking lots...