Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hidden Stockpiles. Government and industry alike profess astonishment at the size of stockpiles in the hands of warehouses and fabricators. "Every time we try to get a fix on supplies, the mills seem to have bigger inventories than before," says one Commerce Department copper expert. "Everybody thought people would run out of copper at least three weeks ago," adds Executive Vice President Charles Moore of the International Copper Research Institute...
...gangster saga-which audiences all over the world worship as epic entertainment and as a safe refuge for dreams of lawless freedom. In a very different way, the view of America the Violent is also reinforced by the Vietnamese war, in which critics both at home and abroad profess to see a growing strain of American brutality...
...says, means that he "must approach all religions with openness and respect." And since the church understands the gift of God in Christ is for all men, it is therefore "commissioned to carry the gospel to all men whatever their religion may be and even when they profess none...
Each of the four statements on reconciliation in society closes with a formal religious sanction. "Congregations, individuals, or groups of Christians who exclude, dominate, or patronize their fellowmen, however subtly, resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith which they profess...Although nations may serve God's purposes in history, the church which identifies the sovereignty of any one nation or any one way of life with the cause of God denies the Lordship of Christ and betrays its calling...A church that is indifferent to poverty, or evades responsibility in economic affairs, or is open...
...their client countries as well as the older nations that profess concern that their fate should largely reside in American and Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...