Word: selfishnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ironic sequel to West Germans' hopes of "belonging to the world" is that GERMANS GO HOME signs have sprouted in Europe, largely as a result of a few ruthless speculators who boost prices, and the selfish Germans who despoil the scenery with barbed wire and Verboten signs. In Ireland, where onetime SS Hero Otto Skorzeny now raises prizewinning lambs, the clergy has even tried to persuade farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when...
...President Kennedy's critics have made the charge that he withheld announcement of the Cuban blockade until it was politically advantageous. There can be no doubt that Kennedy is a master politician, but to suggest that he would gamble with the security of this country to further selfish political ends is not only asinine but naive as well...
...thinking of certain high-tariff groups within the Common Market countries," said Nordhoff. "The Common Market is not something to be used as a third force between America and Russia. It is part of the free world . . . and the free world must trade as freely as it communicates, without selfish protection by economic boycotts against third parties-which is what tarrffs...
...measured scorn. Said he: "For my part I am tired-terribly tired-of hearing America run down by them, of hearing their brassy and boastful words and watching their bumbling actions. The Washington record of these past 20 months presents a picture of political connivance instead of statesmanship, of selfish grabs for power instead of respect for our concepts of balance in government, of arrogant assertion of Washington infallibility instead of readiness to trust in the wisdom of the American people...
...apprehensive; you find us too wealthy and you fear that we are selfish. You are wrong. Modern Europe cannot appear before the world as an association of rich and selfish countries. If we were to fall into this error, we would never be able to find our place in the world. We would be detested and hated, but let me tell you that we would also be stupid. Our countries must export ... If we ruin our clients, we ruin ourselves...