Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world...
...declare that the present crisis with its dangers and opportunities, while partially military and scientific, is of broader and deeper nature. It is also educational, political, psychological, economic, diplomatic and cultural. Even more fundamentally, it is moral and spiritual. It is related to faith and unfaith, the meaning of existence and history and the world, the understanding of God and His will, the nature of man and his destiny...
...most of the intelligentsia. Last week, before galleries crowded with spectators (most of them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord Pakenham, "lest an act of legal toleration be mistaken for one of moral approval, [but] when we reflect on what torture is being suffered by many decent citizens-along with others less respectable, of course-I hope that we remember the injunction, 'Blessed are the merciful.' Let us take advantage of a point in time while it is still in our power...
...risky activity," he lamented last week, "I gained no fortune, no material or even moral recognition." According to Britain's Foreign Office, however, Costantini's work did not go unsung. Without revealing details, a Whitehall spokesman admitted last week that "the whole security system of these [diplomatic] missions has been reconstructed" as a result of his activities. Now a breeder of tropical fish, Costantini modestly admits: "I was an inexpert spy, but I was smarter than the English...
...what's going on in the world . . . The Sputniks don't mean that we'll live in a decadent America," says Publisher Lamade. "We've got to be realistic, but it's the direction in which we're headed that counts. Right and moral values will prevail in the end. Grit will remain optimistic, informative, entertaining, inspirational and forward-looking. Grit will be eternally vigilant...