Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house and should be discreet about throwing bricks outside," Shapley observed with a smile that the Boston conscience was hardly lily-white in view of the records of its current political leadership, and that Chicago's daily crime episodes, just as an added example, don't suggest our national moral integrity to be beyond reproach from overseas...
...Royal Academy of Science of Belgium has elected Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology and widely known author, to a foreign membership in the class of the political and moral sciences in a recent meeting. Sorokin is also a member of Rumanian and Czechoslovak academies...
...Vatican has since learned a good deal more about Americanism, chiefly through contrast with Europe's long, convulsive decline toward economic ruin and moral anarchy. In the 19th Century, writes Historian Joseph McSorley of the Paulist Fathers, "clashes between Church and State occurred in every important country except the United States of America." In the 20th Century, "a large proportion of the working classes turned their backs upon the Church...
...tackled the problem. Once, when it seemed that the situation was serious but not critical, he had lifted rationing and other food restrictions. Now it suddenly appeared that Mr. Truman might have been badly advised. Only by cutting its own wheat consumption (see below) could the U.S. meet its moral obligation to help feed the world's starvelings...
...expediency was not enough to cover the loss to the U.S. moral position from secret diplomacy. The U.S. had come so far from Wilson's "open covenants openly arrived at" that no one knew whether Byrnes himself knew that the latest Yalta disclosure would be the last...