Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Post-Dispatch talked of "an unnecessary loss of initiative in peace negotiations." Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who had unavailingly proposed in his 1956 campaign that the U.S. suspend its own nuclear tests unilaterally, feared that the U.S.S.R.'s move might "deprive us of the moral leadership...
...Asian raised an expected cheer at Gromyko's announcement. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 79-year-old ex-Governor General of India, called the Soviet test suspension "God's Russian miracle-let us hope this noble gesture is contagious." In Burma the New Times hailed it as "a clear moral victory over...
...discovered with a great sense of shock in the world outside, is 'sin.' We may understand 'sin' to express the way in which the evil mingles with the good in life, the way in which the noblest efforts of man can somehow become entangled in moral catastrophe. This 'sin' is not to be found under the microscope...
...will be profoundly shocked to see the way his own truth and power are prostituted to ends with which he cannot become reconciled. He will then do like all pietists before him: propose simple solutions to complex problems, see all issues naively and out of context, and make absolute moral judgments where the need is for shrewd compromise...
Second. Make borrowing both moral and fun. "Why should the borrower have to feel embarrassed about a loan? It is nothing but schizophrenia that makes installment buying of life [things needed now] immoral and installment buying of death [life insurance] moral. And I'd like to see the lending man get up from his desk and smile and shake hands with the prospective borrower, no matter how poor a credit risk he appeared...