Word: selfless
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...pressures within the Republican Party, and command them, but the signs at 1953's end were that he was prepared. His task was made more difficult, perhaps postponed, by the death in July of Ohio's Robert A. Taft, the Republicans' great Senate leader and selfless counselor of the man who had defeated him for the presidential nomination...
...process is often long and tedious. Many patients at St. Francis stay for two years, and some may be a year or more in a special room, breathing 50% oxygen. No matter how long their treatment may take, the youngsters at St. Francis can count on loving, selfless care, in an atmosphere as homelike as doctors and sisters can make...
Citation: "Selfless but self-reliant. Thorough but brilliant. Always ready to serve if others may benefit...
Most observers of the European scene class De Gasperi-along with such men as Germany's Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat...
...selfless imitation of Christ could not fail to impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture. A native trusted by Abbé de Foucauld decoyed him from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle...