Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...University is informed that the 174 permanent housing units not owned, by the University but offered married students at Shaler Lane, Holden Green and Gibson Terrace by The Trustees of the Harvard Housing Trust are not affected. Rental conditions there, it is expected, will remain unchanged...
...personality." As is often the case, the phrase "because of" can substitute for "despite." MacDonald was colorful to the point of flamboyance, and Labor's ranks had loved him dearly. After MacDonald's "betrayal," the embittered Laborites wanted no more color; they wanted a man they could trust. Attlee's sincerity and staying power were patent; the Laborites gave him the leadership when Arthur Greenwood and Morrison, in bitter rivalry, knocked each other out of the ring...
...toughest problems in modern high-speed flying is how to help the pilot bail out alive. A secondary problem is how to test new escape devices. Pilots are understandably reluctant to trust their lives to untried gadgets, and when a pilot does bail out of a single-place fighter, the airplane at least is sure to be lost...
Pressures. Oklahoma's able Mike Monroney joined in. "Don't we trust ourselves?" he demanded. "Must we have a group of twelve men to protect us from ourselves...
...three days' work. "Let your stomachs decide," was the advice of Leader Hynes as he ordered a poll of the rank & file. By week's end, the stomachs had decided. About one-third of the rebellious miners decided to go back to the pits and trust in the maneuverings of King Lewis, unrewarding and incomprehensible though they were. Another 57,500, staying on strike, still had no stomach for John L.'s tactics...