Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that aid for Great Britain and the United States is called for on spiritual and moral grounds. . . . We are playing the part of Pontius Pilate, washing our hands and asking what is truth...
...another occasion in Times Square he inquired of an ornate damsel sitting in the back of a limousine with the top down: "Is the shimmy a moral and proper dance?" She answered in vehement affirmative. Her name turned out to be Gilda Gray...
...Americas were also cold to Hitler's call. Mexico condemned the German invasion as "one of the most tragic violations of international ethics recorded in history." Cuba declared its "moral identification with the position of the peoples of the American Continent and the statements of President Roosevelt toward the defense of America and democratic principles." Other Latin-American nations remained silent, recognizing better than many North Americans the realities of the situation...
Decisive Gamble. Only one thing in Hitler's move indicated that his plans had been upset: he had felt it necessary to retrace his steps and attack Russia before his aims in the West had been achieved. Only some weakness-mental, moral, or material-could account for his taking that otherwise unnecessary risk. For what Adolf Hitler did this week, and what he hopes to do in the future, had been told to Hermann Rauschning in 1934 and published...
...European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits. As a moral force to counteract the Nazis' immoral force, it is a mere buzz. Another reason for the swift Nazi successes is made clearer: the Nazis found a moral vacuum, rushed in to fill it with a workable immorality. Europe could not save itself...