Word: self-respect
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...knows from of old more about Italy and the rest of Europe than any of her competitors. Revisiting many an old friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation for fatal mistakes of fascist policy...
...Self-Respect Lost...
...within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...
They had sought a guarantee that he would not "attack the United Nations or the policies of the U.S. as embodied in the Atlantic Charter and the Teheran agreement." Snorted 70-year-old Salvemini: "They can keep their money and go to hell. I will keep my self-respect...
...actors and music-hall luminaries at the state expense?" Twitted a Cape Towner: "Please, Mr. Sauer, don't be beastly to Mr. Coward." Twitted Coward, observing that in his wartime travels he had been rumored to be both an admiral incognito and a secret agent : "Fortunately for my self-respect, nobody's ever called me a politician...