Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer legitimacy to as evil a regime as Red China would mean a new low in the moral degeneration of American principles. JOAN THOMPSON Washington...
...Soviet support of our national interests. In the army there are still many activists who experienced a breakdown of faith after the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and who are in the throes of a spiritual struggle. But how long can a Communist live as a moral wreck or as an offended virgin? A soldier who observes discipline by fear is good for parades, but we cannot make war with such soldiers." In other words, unless the commissars could talk the soldiers into a greater enthusiasm for a workers' paradise, not even the general could be sure...
...that measures Hollywood stars by their bosoms, a society where the telling of dirty stories and using foul language is commonplace. These things produce sex perverts out of people who have the slightest abnormal tendencies. They are encouraged by everything around them. Until the day society changes its fundamental moral principles and reasserts a belief in God, we will have sex perverts...
...suck candy in the Congo" (i.e., do not take innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
...boys and spits marines. He shouts fear into his boots, and they shout courage back at him. His undeviating training code: if I don't almost kill you in this process, an enemy will some day make you "dead, dead, dead!" The fragile axis of the plot, a moral weakling from a Corps-dedicated family, naturally turns eventually into the pride of his platoon. Sergeant Webb surprises in the end. Just when he might be expected, for the good of the Marines, to mow down his whole motley lot of boots with a Tommy gun, he sends them...