Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It cited the case of Edward U. Condon as an "outrageous" example of procedural unfairness, and hit out at present "vicious types of character assassination."
Somewhere in one of West Point's official poop-sheets there are a few lucid paragraphs about the purposes of athletics. The gist of the idea is that it develops leadership and character, and building these two features is the Academy's raison d'etre.
He never hesitated to ask influential friends to advance his cause, resented being second in anything and lived in constant fear of losing "preferment, character, credit, esteem, honor . . ."
Yet in the end, Freeman, and consequently the reader too, is impressed by a strength of character, an almost fierce sense of justice and principles of conduct rare in Washington's time or any other: "The foundations of that code were not love and mercy, faith and sacrifice, but...
After four years of research and writing, Freeman can make this measured judgment: "The patriot emerged slowly. Two generations ago this statement would have been considered defamation. The integrity of the United States was assumed, for some reason, to presuppose the flawlessness of Washington's character and vice versa...