Word: selflessly
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...master of these revels was Vicomte Charles Eugene de Foucauld, who died a martyr's death in French Morocco in 1916, and is now being considered for beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. The conversion of the worldly sybarite into the selfless man of God makes a dramatic biography out of an indifferently written book, The Warrior Saint, by R. V. C. (for Ronald Victor Courtenay) Bodley...
...taste for selfless public service showed up early. As a young lawyer making his way in Lincoln, Neb., he became counsel for the Lincoln Board of Trade and soon tangled with the railroads over discriminatory freight rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years...
Fuchs and Balsam play the sonatas with an energy and selfless dedication that more renowned virtuosi rarely show. Even in such an oft-performed favorite as the Kreutzer Sonata, their version has as deep and clear a musical perspective as any on the market...
...today a University-wide hygiene program cares for all the student's physical and mental ills, makes sure he doesn't succumb to food poisoning, and has embarked on extensive research into preventive medicine. Five selfless and foresighted men get partial credit for the phenomenal rise of this much-needed department. But the large part of its development was spontaneous, created by the increasing needs of the Harvard community. An enlarged student body, a new type of student, and the pressures of society which the University began to reflect brought the Hygiene Department to its present state...
Fanned Friendship. Perhaps never in history had friendship between two nations been so determinedly fanned. In Peking, it was love, love, love on a timetable, production-line basis. Twenty-four official slogans proclaimed: "Warm Thanks for Selfless Aid to China's Construction by Generalissimo Stalin," "Fighters of the People's Liberation Army Study Hard Advanced Soviet Military Science," "Salute Soviet Experts Who Have Tirelessly Helped in China's Construction." The others acclaimed Soviet women, youth, animal breeders, cooperative workers, farmers...