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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy and Clark are not the only men in Congress willing to fight to have the loyalty affidavit removed from the NDEA. But they need help from the colleges and universities that are directly affected by the Act. They need help to answer such charges as "Hundreds of colleges, including...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Need For Leadership | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

If postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Statehood Tree | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Some Christians and skeptics alike believe that sects which soften the old-fashioned hell are running a considerable risk. Fear of the eternal fire, they hold, helps to make people behave. Last week the powerful United Church of Canada, a union of Canada's Methodists, Congregationalists and some Presbyterians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hell of Loneliness | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Although a fifth still describe themselves as "conservative" in temperament, over half prefer the safe and evasive category of "moderate liberal." In addition, a sixth of the students appear willing to admit that they remain "politically indifferent." Neither Hoffa nor the "missile-gap" can arouse them from their lethargy. Apparently...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

But the poll also unearthed a couple of statistical correlations which may faintly suggest the first dim stirrings of full self-consciousness in the unbelievers' souls. Both were connected with the highly hypothetical but heuristically significant choice between war and American surrender "if the United States should find itself in...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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