Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii...
...nation last winter for votes for a straight Communist ticket, a prince of the church who threw away the Vatican rule book in his dealings with the state. He is also the embodiment of the fervent faith of more than 27 million Poles. Wielding that faith as a moral weapon, Wyszynski has forced from Wladyslaw Gomulka's government a degree of religious freedom and recognition for his church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal and the commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both...
...sure as shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski's moral force and political skill that kept Poland quiet and Russia's tanks out. For this Wyszynski, once criticized for his willingness to compromise, is now an undisputed hero to his countrymen...
Modus Moriendi? The heat went on early in 1950. The Communists took over the Catholic charitable organization Caritas. charging that it was a spy center. Bishop Wyszynski and the aged Adam Cardinal Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow, wrote to Communist President Boleslaw Bierut complaining of "abnormal moral pressure . . . organized hunts after priests." who were sometimes arrested and dragged off in their vestments. The Communists replied by confiscating all lands held by religious orders. The following month, while Cardinal Sapieha was in Rome, Primate Wyszynski shocked the Vatican by negotiating an agreement with the Red regime...
...personalities and incidents concerning all but the two main characters are submerged in the usual modernized cowboy-and-Indian routine, punctuated with moral statements such as "A man has gotta fight for what he believes in" and the like...