Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversation of mothers was [based on] the idea of being selfless-without a voice," she said...
...such a metamorphosis as dangerous as critics claim, a movement toward Christian-male domination? In a society locked in debate over the widespread belief that--in polite terms--"men are pigs," the commitments called for in the official guidebook, Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper, augur a refreshing, selfless transformation. Promise No. 7 commits members to obey the great commandment in the Gospel of Mark: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength...and Love your neighbor as yourself." It is a sentiment both...
Brown always "worked hard but was not considered intense," Ghoury said. "He is a selfless person...
...extremely good: Gingrich has eight years to begin paying back the loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent over prime (currently 10 percent). But Dole, who made $500,000 from his Super Bowl "Visa" spot alone, does not need the money, and his offer may well be as selfless as it sounds. "Apparently, it was all Dole's idea," Carney says. "He's never been someone who cared too much about having money. It really seems that Dole saw a chance to help out where he was needed...
...heart and gratitude are with the selfless School Sisters of Notre Dame in their dedication to fighting this insidious disease, which leaves no survivors and threatens us all [MEDICINE, March 24]. My husband died at the age of 67 of Alzheimer's, and within moments of his last breath, I was asked if I would donate his brain to science. My immediate reply, delivered with much anger in my grief, was an emphatic no. Many months later, I thought about what my husband's reply would have been. My hope in writing this letter is that other Alzheimer's families...