Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal's] way of doing things shakes every moral and legal conception of representative government. Over eight years of that sort of 'slick' leadership is destroying the confidence in political leaders essential to popular government...
...buried alive three Greeks whose executioners succeeded only in wounding them. Exiled Greek Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos cried for philosophical retaliation: "Although such savage brutality . . . would be hard to find even among the most primitive tribes, retribution should not be actuated by a spirit of revenge, but by the moral necessity that an example should be set for future generations and criminal madmen be thus prevented from carrying the world back to a state of darkness and barbarism...
...testified by almost every paragraph and page of "My New Order," Hitler is first, last, and always a nationalist. Yet his patriotism is not an ennobling devotion, but a hideous, unilateral, exclusive thing which makes of faith a disease. Every moral rule, every conception of justice, every instinct of tolerance has been whittled and twisted by his virulent mind to fit not humans everywhere, but the Germans alone. And when principle stops at national boundaries, only force reaches out beyond. Hitler's fanatic nationalism explains the unending lies and invectives with which his speeches groan...
There is, of course, a moral to the tale--the old adage that love is more than skin deep and that a few dermal alterations won't make the course of true affection change. You may have dropped this notion the same year you recognized poppa's schnozzle above Santa's whiskers, but "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" will make even the most case-hardened cynic wish he believed it true...
Dave Egan, Record columnist, picks Harvard to lose a moral defeat, instead of winning a moral victory. "But there is always the possibility that Harlow will think himself right into an immoral victory, as distinguished from a moral one. He has been saving up his entire offense for this very afternoon...