Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilt of Innocence. The Defense Attorney tried again. He recalled how the subcontinent had been brought to freedom by good men, nonviolent men, men above superstition and narrow sectarian hatred. How could such evil come from a victory won by moral force alone...
...equally admirable, he said, was it that Britain, another great and ancient nation, even grander and far more benign in her twilight than Imperial Rome before her, had at length bowed before that moral force in a moral beauty as unprecedented and still more graceful. The Defense Attorney recalled the midnight ceremonies of India's manumission in New Delhi two months ago as extraordinarily touching, the action itself as one of history's rare moments of good will and good hope...
...Moral backing for any protest against the "No girls in the cheering section" dictum disappears with the application forms themselves, for every student when he signed one agreed to occupy personally the seat he bought. By the fourth game of the season everyone must have realized that the rule was there, enforced or not, and observation seems to show that only a small minority of the student body attempted to beat the game by swapping single tickets...
Ordered Obedience. The pupils must have "no personal interests opposed to the collective interests," and teachers are advised that "Soviet pedagogy does not repudiate methods of coercion." When a pupil is "unable ... to understand a given moral requirement. . . the rule may simply be given categorically and obedience ordered without specific explanations and proofs, with the warning that failure to conform will bring unpleasant consequences...
...United States and of Washington. . . . We hope that you will take to heart the prayer in the invocation for a just and honorable peace. . . . We are getting closer all the time . . . but we must have the support of all those organizations that stand for God and a moral code in the world...