Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contribution," he said magnanimously, "to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria...
...letters a week. Her postwar mail is loaded with missives from faithless war wives, bewildered veterans, bobby-soxers who want to know how to grow up. Everybody gets an answer; in the case of suicidal correspondents it goes by airmail. Often it is the same answer ("Men are a selfish lot," etc.) that worked half a century ago. But the questions have changed, from "Should I help a gentleman on with his coat?" to "Is it all right for me to spend a weekend in Atlanta with a boy friend...
...When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can perfection be expected? It therefore astonishes men to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
...Stop Hollering." Looking at this poor advertisement for the nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner...
...expected date, was another triumph for patient, hard-driving Special Envoy Marshall, who had been a mainspring and balance wheel in the difficult negotiations. He called it "the great hope of China," voiced the hope "that its pages will not be soiled by small groups of irreconcilables, who for selfish purposes would defeat the Chinese . . . desire for . , . peace and prosperity...