Word: self-respect
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...promoted to the first grade after 30 days' good conduct. Even third-grade prisoners can advance upon recommendation of the center's commanding officer. First-grade prisoners can go into honor companies, which, says General McNeil, "will appeal to any man who has pride or self-respect...
...with Vichy, not that we used those relations to do espionage and to conspire, and not that we dealt with Admiral Darlan. ... It is the way so many, and some in high places, are talking about these things that does such grave injury to our course, and to our self-respect, and to our confidence in the future...
Death came in Manhattan last fortnight to Columbia's Professor Franz Boas, who more than 30 years ago scientifically demolished "this Nordic nonsense" in The Mind of Primitive Man, a book which has since been called the Magna Charta of self-respect for the so-called lower races...
...think of no way in which the Mil Sci Department can control the situation. It is up to the men themselves to develop necessary self-respect, if the men under their command are to have respect for them. William J. Fischman...
...over the signature of Bill Knudsen suggesting that Jake go to Michigan Pipe Co. in Bay City. Jake got a contract for making steel flanges for wooden pipes. On an old and almost outmoded lathe he started turning out the flanges-slowly, laboriously. Jake was happy; he had his self-respect...