Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virtually all German plants were closed up tight when the Allies marched in. Now the Group Control Council in Frankfurt is desperately struggling with the Protean problem of getting the German industrial machine turning over again, but not too fast. There is a pious hope that this undestroyed industrial giant can be kept manacled. As yet, there is no plan. The Council does not yet know enough about German industry to formulate a plan...
...Britain, as elsewhere, they were suspected of being undercover agents for the Associated Press's Executive Director Kent Cooper, whose talk of global press freedom sounds to the British like pious sales talk for the A.P. The travelers had some sharp words for Britain's Minister of Information (now First Lord of the Admiralty) Brendan Bracken, who "patently did not care much for newspapers or the profession, but he gave it lip service within limitations. He . . . said that in his opinion no [London] editor, with the possible exception of the editor of the Times, had any real voice...
...list of cumulative bestsellers over the years from 1880 to the present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove...
...Despite pious rumor, there are atheists in foxholes. So writes Transport Chaplain Lewis A. Myers in the current Arkansas Baptist: "Foxholes are not valid agents for making Christians, for destroying atheists or for driving men to God. ... If you desire a man to come out of a foxhole with something, you had better send him in with something...
Zhukov seemed to be marked for more history. Stalin's politically reliable, pious Communist confidant, he might now be the instrument for the delicate tasks of governing a beaten Germany and a destroyed Japanese army...