Word: faithless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
Among the many books that took the long view on man's past and his future, two raised enough big questions to keep the cracker-barrel set busy all winter. In a casually lofty historical essay, The World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man stands a fair chance of getting his comeuppance from Russia and the East, but who knows?-maybe not. There was no such hemming and hawing from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years...
When he took over his new parish three years ago, energetic Don Giuseppe Bon-insegna was well aware that he was a "missionary in the land of the faithless." The little village of Gaggio di Piano is the Reddest village in Bologna province, and Bologna province is the Reddest province in Italy. Only about 200 of Don Giuseppe's 3,000 parishioners were faithful Roman Catholics; the rest were more or less faithful Communists...
With a less constant tempo, with some cutting, particularly in the extraneous and overly familiar episodes on shore-the wartime romance, the seaman's return to his bombed home, his faithless wife-The Cruel Sea would have been far more effective. As it is, the audience may be tempted after two hours to agree with the Captain when he says at the end of the film; "Two U-boats in five years. That's not very much, is it? R. E. OLDENBURG
...good old summertime, any conscientious U.S. headline reader last week was apt to feel that allies were proving faithless and the world was falling apart. The Shah flees; France goes on strike; Britain acts testily; anti-Americanism spreads. So read the headlines. Happenings in isolated and distant places interacted in unpredictable ways...