Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprises me that you praise Carpenter. You have overlooked his moral obligation to his troops. Human lives should be handled with more care than pawns in a careless chess game. To fight and die would have been better than to die by decision of the commanding officer...
...longtime "leading spokesman," delivered a three-hour, 30,000-word harangue that sounded strangely like a Molotov jeremiad from the '50s. He denounced the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam as "coldblooded imperialist aggression," "depraved insanity" and, in what was doubtless intended as the most formidable indictment of all, "moral degeneracy with no bottom." Then, contending that the party had "fought its way out of political isolation," he commanded the comrades to unite in a popular front with Vietnik and Negro groups to achieve "left unity...
There is the one about trouble at a motor pool in South Viet Nam; American advisers are considered disrespectful because they give advice about such things as how to grease the engines and which oil to use without first praising the skill of the local mechanics. Moral: The key to Asia is "face...
Then there is the policeman in Malaysia who is asked how long it will take to get to the next village; he replies, "A few minutes," when actually it will take an hour and a half. Moral: Asians only tell you what they think you want to hear...
...foreman at a construction site who is mixing his mortar by hand although a new mechanical mixer is available. When an American technician asks why the mixer is not used, the foreman replies proudly: "I am one day ahead of schedule now, so why bother with the machine?" Moral: Asians have no sense of urgency...