Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backward look at World War I, he said: "We shipped more food to our allies monthly than is being shipped today. We had no black markets. We had a people zealous in a moral crusade to help win the war with food instead of lots of people trying to beat the game...
U.S.F.S.R. In London 60 years ago, when he was red-bearded and in his 20s, George Bernard Shaw joined the newly founded Fabian Society.† It was a socialist group, ambitious to reconstruct "society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities." The Fabians rejected the Marxian doctrine that socialism must be preceded by revolution. They believed in "gradualism," holding that the socialist principle was partially embodied in most governments and capable of extension through existing political parties...
...With hands folded and elbows on his knees, General de Gaulle made his points in clear, precise language. To achieve the unity of the French Empire, he said, there must be a central power with three characteristics: 1) it should have material and moral position ('You all know what I mean.' said he, thus expressing his dissatisfaction with the ex-Vichyites still in high places in North Africa) ; 2) 'it should be based on the real sovereignty of France and not on a fictitious sovereignty'; 3) it should be created in harmony with the French masses...
...hope firmly," said Benes in New York, "that the American people will place their inexhaustible material and moral resources and their organizational genius behind the great work of salvation and reconstruction. The old formula of live and let live is no longer sufficient to meet the requirements of the era that is ahead. Now it is live and help live...
...dove may be either Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or the Holy Ghost, or both. The redemption from fire by fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...