Word: selfless
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...study habits and takes advantage of my willing ear. Despite this penchant for punishment, my relationships are far from doomed. Wrong-doing rebels may still breed danger on the main stage, but we good women can pull the curtain down on our failing Florence Nightingale act. No more selfless nurse for me. No more Sandra Dee meets Mother Mary meets James Bond hussy. I’ll clean my own room, do my own work, and make my own friends, thank you very much, and will probably save my own self while I’m at it. Because...
...Once you become captain, you just have to be pretty selfless,” Bergman said. “[You’re] sacrificing time and just doing what’s better for the team [as well as] being a mediating force between players and coaches...
...then some people in the crowd were motivated not by sympathy but by greed: they tried to steal money from Abu Karam's pockets. "I was shocked when I saw some policemen taking money and new clothes from the damaged cars," says Hasan. But the crowd also included some selfless Iraqis who decided to take the injured men to Yarmouk rather than wait for ambulances to wind their way through the gridlocked traffic...
Assistant captain Ryan Lannon was the next skater honored, when assistant coach Sean McCann ’94 presented the blueliner with the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland Award for “devotion” and “selfless contribution...
...copious spending. Brooks Baekeland was a self-proclaimed writer who never published. His wife was an artist too busy to paint. Each of them had a love of danger and a propensity for violence. Each seemed more interested in boasting of Tony's gifts than in providing the selfless attention he needed...