Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority-live by the old religious morality. Or at least they try to; they may practice what Max Lerner describes as "patterned evasion," a heavy but charitable way of saying that to keep society going people must be free, up to a point, not to practice what they profess...
...these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...
...national origin. Formal, deliberate exclusions of this sort would violate the most deeply held principles of the College. You have noted that even though a student organization has an open membership clause in its constitution, it may nonetheless in its elections practice discrimination and exclusions of a sort we profess to abhor...
...speech he not only defended the use of police dogs in Birmingham but also discussed his own political future. He expressed his opposition to the policies of the president by suggesting his own entrance into some of the presidential primaries of next year. He used the Harvard platform to profess his racist views and promote his racist views and promote his political ambition...
...America, half a dozen countries responded with invitations. But Tito played it safe. Well aware that he would be the first unbearded Communist chief of state to visit Latin America, he accepted only where he could hope for an enthusiastic reception: Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico, all of which profess an "independent" line between East and West. Last week the Yugoslav strongman was halfway through his tour, and he had seen little enthusiasm...