Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this woman simply cannot be received by people who matter. Griswold can have either his integrity or his bride. His potential mother-in-law tries to explain things to him: "Society is not just a question of dressing up and giving parties. It is a question of setting a moral example for the whole community...
...obscene." Botha and the Afrikaners retain full control of the instruments of power: almost all the officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance of the black majority, backed by the economic and moral opposition of the outside world, the embattled Afrikaners seem at last to be losing their oft proclaimed determination to maintain apartheid at all costs. Botha's forces may win a majority of the white votes in next week's election, but history promises the eventual victory to the blacks...
...teacher provided only enough money to cover car payments and an additional loan she had taken out. Once the loan was paid off, she decided to take a crack at a modeling career. Living at home, says Knighton, continues to give her security and moral support. "If I had lived away," she says, "I would be miserable still teaching." Her mother concurs, "It's ridiculous for the kids to pay all that money for rent. It makes sense for kids to stay at home." Bradley Kulat, 25, makes about $20,000 a year as an equipment technician in a hospital...
Conservative local officials, however, are having trouble adjusting to the changes. The law is fuzzy on procedures and powers for local bureaucrats, who are finding ways to block the reform. In Moscow, for example, a commission has been appointed to judge the artistic and moral merit of handicrafts proposed for sale. A young Moscow mother of two who paints churches on wooden eggs was turned down because her wares were "of a religious nature." A jeweler's products were rejected because the work, although it sells briskly, was deemed "ugly...
...wake of bloodshed on both sides of the racial conflict, however, a , number of executives are emphasizing caution. Concerned about the A.N.C.'s endorsement of violence and the substantial number of Communists in its ranks, Oppenheimer said the organization should get "neither moral support nor material support...