Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritain sees it, the betrayal of Christianity has been done chiefly by those who are perhaps the worst atheists of all-the "practical" atheists who think of themselves as Christians. Absolute atheism is merely "a translation into crude and inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...
Niemöller expects Australians to be less complicated than Europeans. Said he last week: "It will be necessary, I think, to speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a woodcut, of the nature of the extreme tests to which Christianity has been subjected in Germany for so many years. My aim is to get our story across, not just to an intellectual...
Sometimes, when company officers think of the multitudes who still do not know the pleasures of Coca-Cola, they are awe-stricken by the prospect. It has even been known to move an executive vice president to prayer. That happened to James F. Curtis, who said, before a bottlers' convention: "May Providence give us the . . . faith ... to serve those two billion customers who are only waiting for us to bring our product to them...
Corn & Television. What hybrid corn did for the corn farmers, Schnering hopes to do for the dairymen, some of whom already think the plan "may be the biggest advance in the livestock industry in more than 100 years." Says Schnering: "Except for television, artificial breeding is the fastest growing business...
...have begun trickling in. Worn out in the scramble to peddle his winnings, Noone took a dim view of the producers of the giveaway show, who had promised to cooperate in collecting the booty. Said he, glumly pondering his bonanza: "They get you into their offices and make you think they're giving you the world on a string-and then they cut the string...