Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small nation would join. For nine years the nation of the two wise and holy men delayed the vote, for it feared, and rightly, that the vote would not be favorable. Meanwhile, the second of the men of wisdom and holiness did much to improve his reputation as a Moral Authority, a position which in those days was exalted in men's minds, but did not pay well. Many said that this man, coming as he did from a land between two worlds, would be a bridge between the two, and would prevent war breaking...
...wore a rose in his lapel increased his exaltedness as a Moral Authority so that he shone exceeding bright in the eyes of the world, he increased the prestige (also important in those days long past) of the world council. He refused, however, to let the plebiscite be held, but he was very devious in his obstructionism and few were aware...
Finally the head council of the world body ordered him for the fifth time and unanimously (with one abstention) to hold the plebiscite, but it was too late. The Moral Authority, the bridge between two worlds, the man who had cast dust into the eyes of the world that he might appear bright had arranged for annexation of the most valuable part of the small principality. He ignored the head council of the world body and achieved his maneuver...
Then the nations of the world wiped the dust from their eyes and saw the wise man as he was. The wise man was no longer a Moral Authority at all, but being a wise man he was aware that his former position did not pay nearly as well as the one he had now gained. He still wore a rose on his lapel, but his heart was not in the right place. It shifted continually...
...world council sought about for another Moral Authority and another bridge, but it did not find one and wars broke out. The nation of the two wise men was soon reduced to ashes as was most of the rest of the world. And the wise man's rose wilted and his heart stopped...