Word: self-respect
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...death weakens the close-knit tribe, and if the dead man was an important personage, the tribe's loss of strength is considered so serious that something must be done about it. A successful head-hunting raid against guilty neighbors restores the injured tribe's prestige and self-respect, but such expeditions are not undertaken lightly. They require an enormous amount of preliminary ceremonial...
...considering the effect of the United States' decision on neutral nations, Elliott asserted, "We should consider all opinion and act out of motives of self-preservation and self-respect." He added that the reports of Professor Hans von Bethe of Cornell University, chairman of the President's advisory committee on nuclear testing, prove that the U.S. "has lost ground seriously to the Russians...
Miami's efforts to fit refugee Cuban doctors into U.S. medicine, to restore their self-respect and to make use of their skills, originated in an unfortunate incident a little more than a year ago. A difficult emergency operation in one of Miami's public hospitals came at the end of a long, hard day, and nerves were frayed as the surgeons hurried to get out of the operating room. Even so, a surgeon trained in Cuba was shocked to hear a colleague bark at a male scrub nurse: "Get out of my way, you Cuban nigger...
Ironically, the journalist realizes a handsome profit from his immorality: fame and fortune as a hero of the Resistance. The baker collects the unglamorous rewards of virtue: hard work, self-respect, the love of the German family. When the farmer is drafted, the baker quietly becomes the man of the house, running the farm and protecting the wife and children as if they were his own. In the last reel, Cayatte adroitly points the moral: liberation makes the baker truly a free man, but it leaves the journalist still a slave to his own weakness...
...goodfellow is large, well informed, modest and moneyed; he has decent impulses and the ability to keep such impulses decently in check. To the goodfellow, self-respect is a garden path, not the tightwire it is to most men. Thus securely footed, the goodfellow can perform extraordinary acts of treachery while maintaining an excellent opinion of himself. Others almost invariably share this opinion...