Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle was keenly aware that the men he left behind him, although outwardly submissive, were inwardly seething with disappointment and discontent. For weeks, perhaps months to come, the European population of Algeria would be restive and potentially dangerous. But it was a measure of De Gaulle's moral force and the success of his mission that not a single member of the Committee of Public Safety had dared to challenge the general's parting shot: "You must help De Gaulle, but you must not push him. He would not like that...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
...Bundy said that the "sacrifice, which will be limited we hope," of serving the Armed Forces is "relevant" to the education offered at Harvard. Charles A. Coolidge, Senior Fellow of Harvard University, praised the high quality of military leadership and concluded that "thoughtful action in the true sense implies moral rightness" and is "the basis of leadership...
...President, who taught all four classes. A few tutors were hired as enrollment increased, and the medieval tradition, that the proper teacher for undergraduates should be a recent graduate, was continued. The tutors not only taught every subject the College offered, but were also responsible for the students' intellectual, moral, and spiritual development...
...Cheever sees these goals, the importance of the alumni to the independent university is to maintain its independence of, or freedom from, "political pressure, financial worry and narrow thinking. Independence in this broad sense is largely dependent on alumni support--moral, intellectual and financial...