Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...February of 1965 something happened which brought students a cause and brought to the country the beginnings of a mass protest movement. It involved people to the political left and right of the civil rights movement. It changed dissent from an intelligent association to a moral cause. The United States began daily bombings of North Vietnam...
...bedside of her mother, Agnes Boulton O'Neill Kaufman, 76, who had been admitted to a hospital suffering from malnutrition. It was Oona's first trip home since she renounced her citizenship 15 years ago, after Charlie ran into visa trouble with the Attorney General on "moral" grounds. Denounced and disinherited by her late father, Playwright Eugene O'Neill, for marrying the 54-year-old Chaplin when she was 18, Oona has also been estranged from her mother, who was married to O'Neill from...
...floor of the U.S. Senate, Mis souri's Stuart Symington called Finley "one of the most disreputable characters ever to enter the American sports scene." In Cincinnati, National League President Warren Giles deplored the American League's hasty, unilateral decision to expand. Giles was right, but his moral position was a little weak: the National League, after all, did not bother to consult American League owners before moving into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta. That still did not make the motives of Finley & friends any nobler or any less obvious. Moving...
Undaunted, the delegates proceeded to endorse the morality of contraception, despite strong minority opposition from lay Catholics representing African and Latin American countries. Citing the "anguishing" problem of a world population explosion, the resolution expressed the "very strong feeling among Christian lay people that there is a need for a clear stand by the teaching authorities of the church, which would focus on fundamental moral and spiritual values." That stand, said the laymen, should include "leaving the choice of scientific and technical means for achieving responsible parenthood to parents acting in accordance with their Christian faith and on the basis...
Most of the demonstrators probably would have been content with picketing or some other form of non-obstructive protest. That would have been acceptable. But some of the leaders were determined to take more radical action. There is nothing sacrosanct about this country's laws, but only a transcendent moral issue can justify their violation. The Administration's policy in Vietnam may be futile and indefensible, but it is not so immoral as to justify the obstruction of an individual's right of free speech and movement...