Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost. I was a foreign woman-and I traveled with the High Brass. Therefore, I was a Bad Woman ... Nothing I could say or do would change this attitude. I was classified, labeled and filed...
...wants a majority of the 58 United Nations to record themselves in favor of the U.S. plan. Departing for Paris with the high fervor of Crusaders, the State Department atomic team did not expect Russia, to abate its intransigence by one jot or tittle, simply counted on the moral value of a majority vote against Russia in the Assembly...
...prayers, no sermons, no hymns or Bible reading. It will not be broadcast on Sunday, but on Friday evenings from 8 to 8:30, competing with regular commercial programs. Titled Great Scenes from Great Plays, it will devote nearly the whole half-hour to a drama. The only moral drawn will be a reference to the relevance of religion...
Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent...
...have lately seen the heroes of a great moral war march home with a repertory of invective almost tragically thin and banal. Like any other Christian soldiers, they used a great deal of foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered...