Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first H-bomb explosion (TIME, April 12, 1954), the world has become increasingly worried about the effect of radioactive fallout on the health of the human race. The question of stopping or limiting the testing of nuclear weapons is not purely scientific. It is also a military and moral problem, but most of the pertinent facts are scientific. For the opinions of the world's scientists on this disquieting matter, see SCIENCE, How Dangerous Are the Bomb Tests...
...Commons the Laborite Opposition did its best to protest what it could not prevent. "Does the Prime Minister feel," asked one Labor M.P. in chilling irony, "that when, like the Russians, we have had our tests, we shall, again like the Russians, be in a position to assume the moral leadership of the world and propose that they be the last tests?" Prime Minister Macmillan was not to be jostled. "I am bound to say," he answered with a straight face, "that in discussing the matter of nuclear disarmament, we shall now be in a very much better bargaining position...
...British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think of England...
...their hands the old school tie has become a garrote for genteel traditions. Moral and political neutralists, they expend their limited energies avoiding social commitments. As writers, they have taken fhe drawing-room comedy and turned it into kitchen-sink satire. As a new social breed, they have spearheaded the revolt of the Non-U's (for Non-Upper Class), a petty intelligentsia of teachers, technicians, journalists, veterinary surgeons and welfare officers, characterized (in the words of one critic) by "their long-playing records and their ponytail-haired wives." Drab, insular and irritable, the "new men" suggest that...
...Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American law a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty does not mean that his fellow citizens must abandon their common-sense judgments -"the common sense of the moral tradition of the Western world"-about his actions...