Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscious of her position, Actress Cornell maintains an almost pious attitude of noblesse oblige. She never blows up. She is fanatically punctual: if her husband is not ready on time, she leaves for rehearsals alone, waits for him at the theater. Life for her is a serious business. Her manager once remarked: "If a person has no suffering or great sorrow, they just don't interest Miss Cornell...
Chief problem Rabbi Bernstein must solve is the pious Jewish soldier's daily fear of violating the Mosaic dietary laws. The Jewish Welfare Board has already made kosher canned foods available at various post exchanges, provides them free for soldiers unable to buy. Jewish soldiers who cannot get kosher food are urged not to feel they are sinning, because they are under military compulsion...
Biggest unsolved problem was manpower, growing steadily worse despite dozens of plans, scores of planners, thousands of words of advice, criticism and pious hope before Congressional committees. To the White House went Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, whose presence often foreshadows sudden change. To the White House also went Labor's Philip Murray and William Green...
...Pretoria farm Death came last week to Great Britain's most famed South African enemy, stern, pious General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities...
...advocate of terror, Fuller admires-though he says that the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was of little military use. Except for Grant, U.S. military leaders have not had enough appreciation of the importance of speed, and lost many a golden opportunity by dawdling. Most horrible example: the pious Jackson, who stopped for devotions on the Sabbath...