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Word: selfishnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats and Republicans began sniping at each other and the campaign heated up, even the French got interested. "One gets the impression it stimulates sluggish livers," said a Paris editor. "I think we should be allowed to campaign and vote for the American President too. You are selfish not to share the pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Who's Ahead in the Sixth Arrondissement? | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...front-page advertisement in last week's Cambridge Chronicle, Dietz appealed for help to everyone who has "ever felt threatened and abused by selfish actions of an inconsiderate neighbor." The part-owner of a building on the corner of Palmer and Church streets charged that the two-story Coop bridge would "ruin" Palmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dietz Plans Protest to City Council Over 'Bridge' to New Coop Annex | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...promote him from Premier to President and grant him virtually absolute powers. Khanh acted with the knowledge and at least qualified approval of U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor. But Khanh simply could not make his new authority stick. As if at a signal, South Viet Nam's petty, selfish political and religious factions cut loose, not really giving a hoot about the war, hating one another more than the Viet Cong, and using Khanh's power play as an excuse to move on one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Anarchy & Agony | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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