Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optimistically hoped that the moral force of the U.N. would be enough to accomplish partition. It was now clear that if the U.N. decision was to be anything but a dead letter, the commitment would have to be backed up with force...
...simple for the world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world finds it hard and self-shaming to believe that truth...
...Moral? Next day, Loretta'Young divulged her sources: the executive's shoes story came from a U.S. woman correspondent (who, apparently, doesn't know that coupons aren't required for resoling shoes). The chocolate-bar-and-piteous-child incident was told her by a British waiter, whose little boy had shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said...
...moral, if any, seemed to be that grousing was one British product not intended for the export trade...
...citizen, Dr. Rock, the father of four, believes that physicians should be free to give contraceptive information: "I don't think that Roman Catholicism forces a man to interfere with other people's freedom of conscience and action within their own moral principles. In a democracy such as ours, a man's religion does not oblige him to force legal restrictions on another man's freedom of action...