Word: selfless
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...resurrected German Reich. Since then we have lost much that was dear to us, and that will survive always in our old soldiers' hearts. "But one thing has remained, and that is the Fatherland! This we will serve in its need beyond all party strife in selfless love and loyalty. And in this hour of consecration we will renew our pledge with the old cheer: 'Deutschland Hurra...
...Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
Estimate. "With the details of business the President was not intimately acquainted . . . but he had other tremendous, valuable powers. ... I have not been greatly impressed by the capacity of the practical businessman for statesmanship . . . the President was strikingly selfless . . . habitually took the long view . . . played for the verdict of history...
Sirs: There are those who, having attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...
Sometime later, Dr. Charles W. Eckermeyer, a sensitive physician who, during the 47 years he has been practising medicine, has never sent his patients a bill, celebrated a birthday. To him, to commemorate his selfless devotion to his profession, the villagers gave the purse, the motor...