Word: unshaken
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...debut like this could have destroyed a man with less confidence, but Zimmer (man was unshaken. The rest of '65 was spent marking time, but it took only the first scrimmage against Massachusetts for Zimmerman to win the job for good...
Many clerics, unshaken in their belief that racial justice is a spiritual as well as a social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned...
...longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect the diminished horizons of the once Empire, and whose ineptitude in lifemanship contrasts sadly with the unshaken conviction of Americans that life is something to be lived to the limit...
Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
Spare the Knife. Dr. Wangensteen's faith in his technique remains unshaken. In a group of 701 of his patients, many of whom had repeat freezing, there was not one death. There have been some serious complications, including two perforating gastric ulcers. But of 71 recent patients, most of them followed for 18 months, only five have needed surgery, while 26 others still have intermittent ulcer pain. The satisfactory result rate is 51 % . One reason for the difference between his record and Hitchcock's, said Dr. Wangensteen, is that his team now uses liquid that is supercooled...