Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst of moral indignation, the city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks...
...swindlers have all been caught now, crowed Moskovskaya Pravda, but there was a moral to be learned: "We worry a lot over the cleanliness of tablecloths and plates in restaurants and sanitation in the kitchen. This is right. But we must not forget that the most important thing is hygiene of the soul, the crystal cleanliness of those the state has chosen to serve our people." No forwarding addresses were given for Comrades Akopov, Traibman and Lopatkin...
Truman went on to declare, "It is not enough to 'deplore' violence when it occurs. The President of the United States has a moral responsibility in this matter...
Peace. "We must persuade those who are easily deceived by the mirage of a peace consisting in an abundance of temporal goods that security and lasting peace are above all a question of spiritual unity and of moral dispositions...
There is time, but precious little. The decent people of the South have a moral necessity to take their stand on the side of law and order; the alternatives of violence and destruction can lead only to disaster and death...