Word: selfless
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...grateful reader pause in the day's occupation to suggest a salvo of praise for the anonymous editor and the selfless team of researchers and collaborators who are responsible for the over-all story on the U.S.S.R. and Maxim Litvinoff in the issue...
...brightness at socio-psychological criticism similarly seems to proceed at least in part from the lack of another faculty: the faculty which theologians still call charity. Nowhere, in the whole of the volume, does any character act out of genuine kindness, or even out of those uneasy spurts of selfless confusion which, in actual living, so complicate the moralist's task...
Destiny's agent was a Bavarian officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...
...Somewhat revised now for U. S. readers, and brought nearly up to date (August 1940), it seems unlikely that it will reach any such status here; much of its political history is a little too remote from U. S. interest. But as a self-portrait of a great and selfless man, and as an intimate if less complete portrait of a great incipient nation, it has, for any reader anywhere, unique power...
Last week the Skidroad was fit to bust with pride over Sexton Fitzgerald. For his 32 years of shy and selfless service, the Pope himself had sent him a gold medal-the Benemerenti medal originated in 1832 by Gregory XVI to reward distinguished civil and military service for the faith...