Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Churchmen warned of the "moral risk," spoke of the "sense of surprise and regret." The Evangelist, Albany's diocesan weekly, said: "The bombing . . . smells to heaven as an act of vandalism...
...Yutang appraised himself in Manhattan: "I think I am about as moral a man as anybody and that if God loves me only half as much as my own mother, He will not send me to Hell. That I know. If I don't go to Heaven, the earth is doomed...
...opium. The most confirmed vipers have no particular craving for the drug. They just enjoy its effects. Like alcohol, of course, it can raise hell with orderly living, release bad as well as good personality traits. But in spite of the legends, no case of physical, mental or moral degeneration has ever been traced exclusively to marijuana...
...walk, or, if need be, march together in harmony and in accordance with the moral and political conceptions to which English-speaking peoples have given birth . . . all will be well. If they fall apart and wander astray from the lines of their destiny, there is no end or measure to the miseries and confusion which would mark modern civilization...
...battle between Ray MacKenzie and the professor for the girl, complicated because Ray does not know until late in the battle that he is fighting anyone. The theme of Trio, troubling and unpopular, has the narrow importance of illuminating one aspect of the emotional disorder in American moral and educational life. What the simple Ray did not guess at first was that the relationship between the sharp professor and the trembling student had been intimate enough to drive Janet into a mental home. He discovered Pauline to be more than "a sort of good-looking clotheshorse little pipsqueak...