Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Seven Days to Noon (London Films). A top British atomic scientist, in acute moral distress over his work, sends an ultimatum to No. 10 Downing Street: unless the government publicly renounces the manufacture of atomic bombs within seven days, he will set one off in the heart of midday London. The discovery that Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) is indeed missing from his government laboratory- along with a potent U.K. 12 that could fit into his small satchel-touches off a major crisis in London and a major moviemaking feat by Britain's young (37) producing-directing twins...
...weeks. For their convenience, and to tempt others, the CRIMSON lists below some of the attractions which help make New York the hedonists' paradise it is. As James James Thurber notes: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead." This moral applies to Gotham better than to any other place is the world...
Germans react far more sensitively to concrete displays of effectiveness than to evidences of moral purity. While the U.S. was losing, Germans doubted it would ever be able to help them against aggression in Germany. Many sought Rűckversicherung (reinsurance) by signing Communist peace petitions, buying ads in Communist newspapers, reviving connections with East Germans and Russians. After Inchon, however, Germans could visualize for the first time substantial U.S. reinforcements against the threat of 300,000 crack Russian troops across the Elbe River. The latest Korean disaster has now scared many Germans into the belief that the U.S. will...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...
...Professor Robert M. Hawkins of Vanderbilt University's School of Religion thought it a military rather than a moral question. "To me the atom bomb is just another weapon . . . Any weapon is inhumane, and I would rather be blown up with an atom bomb than bayoneted...