Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only two months ago, the West had enjoyed clear moral and political superiority in Austria by its strong stand against Russian seizures of Austrian industry, farmlands and Zistersdorf oil. But so devastating were the effects of Communist propaganda 'and the West's own fumbling, wavering policy that now the U.S.-British advantage was all but erased. By week's end, Austrian politicians were almost afraid of getting the U.S. loan they had dreamed about since liberation...
...which means: "Give me a kiss, please, Miss. I like your nose''- and two-line essays on moral subjects (e.g., "Nothing fails like Success"). They spoke English fluently, but after the manner (somewhat corrupted) of their 18th Century creator, Jonathan Swift. They would say: "He fell Victim to Intoxication, and dismounted from his Nag to seek the Safety of the Terra Firma...
...such action will be presented when the United Nations General Assembly meets on October 23. The Spanish problem is certain to be on the agenda. Perhaps nothing more than a dearth of fresh air will result from these deliberations; but if the U.N. passes up this chance to exert moral, economic, or military pressure upon the only remaining Fascist axis, it will have wasted its most convenient opportunity to prove that the nations of the world are able to work together to secure peace...
...need for a religious core: "The moral tradition of our society is quite obviously shattered. . . . Some of the schools [like St. Paul's] are going to continue to be frankly church schools, religious schools, which believe that the one solid foundation for morality is religious faith...
...plentiful that London gossiped that the British Board of Trade was about to restore a free market. If it did, prices might drop even lower, and the British might have to take a whopping loss on the rubber already bought for 23½ ?. To Wall Streeters the moral was plain: if the price of crude rubber, once among the scarcest of commodities, could drop so quickly, how long would the sky-high prices of other "short" commodities stay...