Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Religion is not a commodity like canned milk or steel. . . but that is no reason why a religious program should not use . . . modern radio techniques to help the audience start thinking about spiritual things. . . .I have actual tangible proof that music not only soothes the sorrowing breast, but leads the non-Catholic to be more ready and willing to accept the Catholic message...
...Scandal in Paris (Arnold Pressburger-United Artists), based in a rather freewheeling way on actual fact, tells how Eugene François Vidocq (George Sanders), a criminal almost too clever for his own good, became prefect of the Paris police and turned his youthful research to gainful account as the first great detective (circa...
...once more in the sand to reproduce for cameras the suspense and release of that moment at Alamogordo when the Atomic Age cut loose its first appalling kick in history's womb. According to New York Timesman William L. Laurence, some witnesses at Alamogordo were moved by the actual event to perform a kind of primordial fire dance. But history-or rather the human ability to stare history straight in the eyes-is not yet tough enough to endure that sight. Instead of the dance, the movie shows Conant & Bush, still stretched on the ground, just solemnly shaking hands...
...Contempt & Loathing." In Jerusalem, where the final death toll in the terrorist-wrecked King David Hotel had reached 91, barbed-wire barricades bristled in the streets. Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had issued instructions to British troops to boycott Jewish homes and stores: "Without the support, actual or passive, of the Jewish public, the terrorist gangs . . . would soon be unearthed, and in this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops...
...years ago, when Jewish influence in the "Government of the Colonels" was nil, Cardinal Hlond had found very different reasons for encouraging antiSemitism. Said he, in a pastoral letter of 1936: "It is an actual fact that the Jews fight against the Catholic Church, they are freethinkers, and constitute the vanguard of atheism, bolshevism and revolution. The Jewish influence upon morals is fatal, and the publishers spread pornographic literature. It is also true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury and dealing in white slavery. . . . One does well to prefer his own kind in commercial dealings, to avoid Jewish...