Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went into secret session and confirmed the original list, adding Brigadier General Peron's name at its head. That left the President in a pretty pickle. How could he be so immodest as to make himself a major general? How, on the other hand, could he be so selfish as to return the list unapproved, thus holding up the promotions of 60 worthy officers? At week's end he found a neat solution: President Peron scratched out General Peron's name, then signed...
Heaven only knows how it must make the Congressmen feel-and I suspect they have no feelings at all except their own selfish ones-but surely the people themselves ought to feel terribly ashamed: 1) that they elected such fatheads and drunkards to office, and 2) that there apparently is no way to keep these guys from going to Europe...