Word: profession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draw a sharp distinction between words and action. I do not often speak of my religion, but my associates know that I subscribe to the precepts enunciated by Jesus Christ, especially in His Sermon on the Mount. In my opinion, however, it is not sufficient for an individual to profess a faith; actions alone mark the believer. During my last trip with the Chinese Communists I carried a copy of the New Testament and read the Gospels daily, with a view to comparing the precepts of Jesus with the pattern of life I observed around me. My conclusion...
...have been dispensing medicine, clothing, etc., are like the British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they do it in the U.S. instead of Mexico, which has been solidly Catholic for 400 years...
...profess annoyance at our temerity; we condemn your imbecility. You are smug in your complacency; we are abashed by your shamelessness. . . . To cavil further is futile. We trust that time, as it shrinks your purse, may modify your niggardly and anti-social propensities...
...Eric Allen Johnston appeared last week in the New York Times Magazine. The battle is joined between capitalism and socialism, said Johnston, but most American businessmen do not know the shooting has started. They are still giving "little more than lip service" to the faith in private enterprise they profess. Economic freedom in the U.S., said he bluntly, is still "the privilege of a few individuals." If capitalism is to prevail, it must be possible "for every man to call himself a Capitalist." Every man must have a financial stake in capitalism...
...American Eyes. Americans "want to return immediately to a world in which dollars are provided only on commercial loan terms. They also profess to want a world in which international trade moves freely between the countries without such wartime obstructions as exchange controls, license restrictions and discriminations. Now clearly they cannot have both, for the two aspirations contradict each other...