Word: selfless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bent on other business. With his wife and three sons (Peter, 11, Darrell, 8, and Jonathan, 5) he went to the White House rose garden, where Dwight Eisenhower read and presented him with a special citation for a "historic contribution to human welfare ... in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research...
...early 19305 every U.S. schoolboy -and his teacher, too-knew the essential facts about China's Chiang Kaishek: Chiang, married to a pretty Chinese girl with a U.S. education, was a selfless Christian general who had fought down Communists and war lords to unite his country for the first time in its modern history. Ten years later many a schoolboy, teacher and clubwoman was hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress...
...Communists have instituted a monthly ration of 17 lbs. of rice for children, 33 lbs. for adults, 55 lbs. for their new privileged elite, the Communist party workers. "Rebels eat last" is the rule in the sections where Roman Catholics resist the regime. The Hanoi press extols the "selfless help" of Red China, but Red China (itself in economic trouble) has only sent Ho one shipment of 10,000 tons of rice. "We may have to accept as many as 2,000,000 deaths this year from starvation," a senior Communist admitted...
...There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self...
...felt unwanted and frustrated at home with an ineffective father and a hostile, aggressive, dominant mother. With another patient acting the part of his mother, Joe learned to express some of his bottled-up aggressions -and the substitute mother, herself a domineering type, learned to give Joe a selfless kind of help...