Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning the free world that landing is imminent," warned the Quemoy garrison "to withdraw." Then, two days later, the Communists made a big-and unanticipated-move to scare the U.S. out of involvement in Quemoy. The Kremlin warned the U.S. that the U.S.S.R. intended to give Red China "necessary moral and material aid in the just struggle for the liberation of Formosa" and that "any aggression by the U.S. in the Far East will . . . lead to spreading...
...Feeling the need for moral support in its battle with Pro Promoter Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 15). the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia asked the International Lawn Tennis Federation to ban Kramer's using amateur-controlled courts for his pro shows. Vexed by L.T.A.A. sniping, Kramer warned that he could "get a lot rougher," added menacingly, "I could destroy the entire Davis Cup structure by signing up the world's leading amateurs next year." During a break in these interchanges, the U.S. Davis Cup team whipped Italy 5-0, moved into the challenge round against the heavily favored...
...plans to expel the entire German population of the "recovered territories"-between 4,800,000 and 5,800,000 Germans were ultimately driven out of the area, mostly to West Germany-Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee declared that the Germans "are not entitled to appeal on the basis of moral laws that they have disregarded...
...contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values." And so, in a perfect illustration of Zhivago's essential refusal to do harm, he aims his fire at a dead tree...
...sense is Boris Pasternak a popular hero in Russia, or a practical rallying point of resistance. The West certainly has no grounds for claiming him as a political ally, and at best will have to live up to him as a moral one. Yet Zhivago has become one of those portents of freedom whose ends are incalculable. Among Moscow students a couplet goes...