Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years later the Crimson recorded the disgraceful era of selfish imperialism and expansion. Today it decrys that period, its purposes as well as its methods. The principles of self-aggrandizement and power which guided that nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as the "American century." Rather than using the "white man's burden" and "bringing civilization to the heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts then today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another twenty years...
...appeal to rationality should suffice to make such primitive methods unnecessary. It is the age-old case of people agreeing to certain restrictions for mutual convenience; a selfish and unenlightened fraction of this group can destroy this convenience for the whole community...
...think that the "pirate colony" of Texas might be admitted to the Union, condemned the admission of Missouri ("a nest of ... rapacious slavedrivers") as a shattering blow to those who saw in America's "moral power" the beginning of a "long series of conquests over physical force and selfish cunning...
Where is that common sense of which we Americans were once so proud? So they want a raise because the cost of living has risen; but isn't it evident to even the most selfish that any increase in consumer purchasing power must necessarily add still more to that cost of living? Or maybe the true fact underlying this "greatest" war effort is the very simple fact that everyone is out to get whatever he can from this unprecedented opportunity. With the aspects of inflation clearly in view, our selfish, bigoted "patriots" are willing to risk chaos and defeat...
...South grave racial tension. . . . Violent speeches filled with Nazi ideas and phrases are inciting race hatred and conflict. ... A widely advertised campaign to revive the K.K.K. is preparing the South for organized racial violence. With grave concern responsible Southerners are watching the subversive efforts of irresponsible politicians who for selfish purposes are endangering the nation's war effort...