Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change whereby justice is manifested." and provides for "a system of order based upon the replacement of force by community justice, reflecting moral...
...Thus, since its inception, our nation has been dedicated to the principle that man. in his relationship with other men, should be governed by moral, or natural law. It was believed that this was something that all could comprehend. So great responsibilities were placed upon a jury, and the conscience of the chancellor was relied upon to temper legal rigors with equity. And legislatures annually change our statute laws in the hope of thereby making these laws more conformable to justice...
...bloc. "Those nations should be made to feel the weight of public disapproval . . . Unless the U.N. becomes, for all, an instrumentality of peace through justice and law, then some alternative must be found." ¶ Intensify within the U.N. General Assembly the quest-"in my view, sometimes overlooked"-for genuine moral judgments rather than "feudal" voting by "blocs," geographical regions or "haves versus havenots." ¶Spread rule of law inside the free world by greater use of the International Court of Justice. "We are closely examining the question of our own relationship to the International Court with the view of seeing...
Thailand. The open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time...
...hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute's pimp, but the nimbus of light still rings his head. The highly orthodox moral: the unmerited gift of divine grace is not man's to will or wile away...