Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans are without a doubt the most competitive and win-oriented people in the world. I've always held the opinion that since America was started by a bunch of losers, Americans have felt compelled to prove themselves...
...YEARS AFTER the founding of the BNP, there were only 93 members. But it became and remains today the most powerful Basque political organization in Spain. Even though it has been outlawed and is forced underground, there is no doubt the BNP will play a prominent role in the uncertain future of the Basques in Spain. Should the post-France government liberalize its policy towards Basques, legalization of the BNP would be one way to channel political steam that might otherwise pour into the radical activities of the Nationalist Party's illegitimate offspring, ETA, "Basque Country and Freedom...
...letting Rose sass her, Lady Astor reverted to the practice of some of her Southern slaveholding ancestors who allowed back talk from black mammies as a form of amusement. She was certainly capable of such cruel diversions. Despite Rose's profuse claims of devotion, her book leaves little doubt that she felt Lady Astor was self-centered, tactless, sadistic, incapable of affection, a racial and religious bigot and even an abuser of pets...
...failures to appreciate what a writer does at his best. As for Joyce's "anythings," Ellmann chose the letters for this collection mostly on the basis of their general interest. And the interest never seems to sag just paging through these letters. Still, readers might rightfully doubt if they can do justice to what Ellmann calls "Joyce's principal assertions of his character and of his literary aims...
Jaroslav I. Pelikan said he thinks the American people, like the Romans, have come to doubt whether or not the "future holds anything worth striving for," adding that when "ennui sets in, society atrophies...