Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell chooses to drop the case, satisfying himself with moral vindication, the issue will drop as well. If he demands his back pay, a process that will oblige him to go through lower courts, perhaps over a period of months, the potential conflict will become fact. What if the Supreme Court ultimately ordered the House to pay and the House refused to comply? No one knows exactly, but the script is not pleasant to contemplate. In the most extreme scenario, federal marshals could be ordered to arrest the paymaster of the House, and the House could retaliate by impeaching...
...houses and take the doctor and the county health officer on regular Saturday inspection tours," says Blakemore. He performs other official functions, like fingerprinting the prostitutes in each brothel for the sheriff's office files. "This is a dirty, rotten business," he cheerfully admits. "There is no moral way to justify it. We're not trying to sell it. We're just trying to keep it under control...
...highest-priced show on or off Broadway. With more than $103,000 in advance sales already made, Hillard Elkins is living the producer's dream-which is not to give a four-letter word about the critics' reviews. Less than five years ago, legal obstacles and moral outcries would have prevented Elkins from even opening the show, but none have currently been raised...
...most of the choices were flubbed-out of stupidity, cowardice and petty self-interest. Churchill's words after Munich today read flamboyant but true: "The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame and they will get war." Curiously, Hitler once pointed to the same moral-that one's character finally becomes one's destiny. When he discovered how formidable the Czech bunkers might have proved, he said: "What does it matter how strong the concrete is so long as the will is weak...
...numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper. Then again, he might use an empty corner to jot down a scientific observation or a moral speculation in his strange, backward-running "mirror handwriting...