Word: self-respect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latter-day journalists, and he wonders querulously what the modern young reporter does with all his leisure: "I get the impression from the modern reporter that he doesn't really like his work. He wishes he were a druggist. The idea of a newspaper reporter with any self-respect playing golf is to me almost inconceivable. I hear that even printers now play golf. God Almighty, that's dreadful to think of." Other Mencken shafts...
Next rose Robert Browning, the county's health information officer and himself still on the payroll. "I cannot and will not sacrifice my own integrity and self-respect on the altar of economic security," he said. "Dr. Coggins has been severely persecuted and tormented, and the health department has collapsed. Practice the kind of Christianity you profess and rescind your action now! If you persist in this action, God pity...
Holden is one of those who broke under Chinese Communist brainwashing and signed a germ-warfare confession. Back home, he tries to fly his way back into the heart of the girl (Virginia Leith), the confidence of the Air Force (Brigadier General Lloyd Nolan) and his own self-respect. The picture is sure to be exciting for taxpayers who like to see what they are getting for their money...
Without disclosing the strength of China's armed forces, Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai announced that there were 2,700,000 fewer men under arms than in 1949. As a sop to the self-respect of the hitherto terrorized Chinese intellectuals, the leaders decreed that a party member, while obliged to carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified...
...Chinese support of Burmese Communists, Burma's new Premier U Ba Swe announced that he hoped to get a long-term low-interest loan of $20 million to $30 million from the U.S. as a business deal "without strings," thus compromising neither Burma's neutrality nor her self-respect as a sovereign nation. The U.S. will supply technicians in exchange for Burma's rice...