Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...send the bill back for rehearing was bowled over (231-to-166) while Minority Leader Sam Rayburn cried: "Everybody knows this figure [$6 billion] was picked out of the air." Everyone also knew that any legislative ceiling on expenditures was just a wishful hope and no more than a moral obligation, once the appropriation bills started coming...
...loose bolt in a machine, is Man in the extremity of anguish and dereliction. As such, he is a quick test of the presence or absence of true charity among those with whom he collides. And among all these people, who combine with the dark city into a moral image of the modern world, very little true charity is evident...
...least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore, is not a private affair but a matter of public concern. Dr. Goldstein sums up: "The social responsibility that rests upon each one of us demands that our private life be equal in moral tone and inspiration to our public performance...
...Possible moral for nightclub proprietors and bosses who work the help after hours: lack of sleep is bad for the victim's health, bad for his disposition, but does not necessarily impair his natural intelligence...
...average citizen little he doesn't already know about atomic fission. Of the peculiar terror and agony of the bomb in human terms, it tells incomparably less in two hours than certain newsreel shots of Hiroshima's survivors told in as many minutes. The treatment of the moral problems exacerbated by the bomb is once-over-lightly. Problems of atomic control (Army v. civilian, U.S. v. international) are shunned like the plague...