Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring this article to a close . . . without sending from the depths of my solitude my greetings to the great people of the United States, where differing opinions may be freely expressed and where every one, whatever his political group, cherishes a respect for the human being and for moral...
...delegates fervently echoed Thomas E. Dewey's conclusion: "Religion must reassert its leadership as a living force in the moral values of the nation. Our form of government was devised on principles flowing from deep religious conviction. . . . Every essential of any free society springs from the concepts of morality, family life and duties and faith in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Each of these is denied by the purely materialistic philosophies of totalitarianism...
...Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...
...captain paused to point a moral for the speedier couriers: Private Vetters had had presence of mind, knew how to address a superior. Then he asked for the message. Soldier Vetters, Bayard but no Phidippides, frisked his pockets, thumbed his belt. Quavered he: "I lost...
...idea of work camps has distinguished parentage. Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin advocated them, and William James, in The Moral Equivalent of War, proposed in 1910 that all youths be conscripted as an "army enlisted against nature . . . to get the childishness knocked out of them and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas." First work camp was organized in northern France in 1920 by Pierre Ceresole, a Swiss pacifist. By 1931 Republican Germany had 280,000 youths enrolled in Government-subsidized work camps; Adolf Hitler expanded them into the Nazi labor service...