Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advocate, and the December issue, despite its grimmer gray exterior, presents the old material in the old way with only a touch less than its usual technical excellence. Marvin Barertt's lead story, "Home Life," is a particularly skillful sketch of a degenerate family, and its distilled essence of moral and physical decay, engenedered, by apparently objective description of voluptuous decadence, savors strongly of the works of William Faulkner. Unfortunately, however, the author has little of Faulkner's control or understanding of the literary dynamite with which he is playing, and the result is the technically polished yet emotionally impotent...
...unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME'S phrase but the factual report of typical angry U.S. reactions, thoroughly documented by reports from correspondents all over the U.S. It probably came to the tongues of many men in its strongest meaning-one of moral censure rather than race prejudice-for "yellow" has long been the word for cowardice and treachery. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
...nation Franklin Roosevelt led had yet to demonstrate to history that it had the stature, moral as well as physical, to stand up and trade blows with the Axis-not for three weeks or six months but year after year, giving odds if need be and fighting the enemy to a standstill. Such a demonstration has been given by the people whom the son of a Chinese peasant led-Chiang Kaishek...
...Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric. Even Stalin himself could no longer hold up the banner of the proletarian revolution as the hope of mankind. All he now holds is the strength of the Russian armies battling in a war that he long sneered at as "imperialistic...
...moral accomplishment elevated any of the Leaders of the Axis to the rank of Man of the Year. And in 1941 the practical accomplishments of those men were not up to standard. No exception was Adolf Hitler...