Word: self-respect
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Scripps's later recollection of the facedown with Howard does not conflict: "His manner was forceful, and the reverse from modest. Gall was written all over his face. It was in every tone and every word he voiced. There was ambition, self-respect and forcefulness oozing out of every pore of his body . . . However, so completely and exuberantly frank was he that it was impossible for me to feel any resentment on account of his cheek." Resentment, indeed. Scripps came to value Howard's talents and insouciance so much that in 1912, at 29, Howard became...
...Senator Goldwater handed our original Republican Party back to us along with our dignity and self-respect. If Senator Javits and his leftist liberals think that 26 million Americans are going to hand our newly regained Republican ideals of freedom back to them just to be again degraded, then they don't know what it means to love one's country enough to fight...
...asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward, and he beats her every round except the inevitable last one. And, capering defiantly toward the lobotomist's knife, he pipes the other inmates toward self-respect, a service they resent all the more because the journey terrifies them...
...think that Goldwater will get elected for the reason that the American male has progressed too far down the road of unmanliness to take this one chance to regain his own and the world's self-respect...
...effect, make him deputy prime minister and No. 2 man in India. When Shastri countered with the offer of the No. 3 position in the Cabinet, just under that of veteran Home Minister Gulzari Lai Nanda, Desai bitterly refused because he felt "it is not consistent with my self-respect...