Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus a moderately vocal opposition. But as one Senator put it: "Who's crazy enough to risk his mandate by outspokenly opposing the government?" Only 117 Deputies and 18 Senators pledged themselves to the opposition-five short of the minimum. It took considerable backroom maneuvering before five selfless souls finally agreed to go over to the other side, which dubbed itself the Brazilian Democratic Movement. Said one politician: "We have our two-party system all right-the party of 'Yes,' and the party...
...thrown into quarantine because of a measles epidemic. Maugham added a tropical rain season to the measles, and made the confrontation of missionary and whore into a classic contest between righteousness and sin. What man (or clergyman) has not felt the visceral taint of the sensual in his ostensibly selfless concern for a pretty sinner's soul...
...public servant-turned-educator who turned public servant again, Bell was the third man selected for President-elect John Kennedy's government. He came to Washington as Director for the Budget Bureau and became foreign aid administrator in 1962. The citation called him "an able, selfless public servant upon whose kind depends the health of our democracy...
Behind the Curtain. President Johnson, full of praise, spoke at the conference, called Laurance Rockefeller a "selfless patriot," joked about the White House upheaval caused by the crusade for beauty. "This afternoon, after a particularly hectic day yesterday and after a late lunch, I went in about 4:15 to get my afternoon nap," said Johnson, "and I dozed off to sleep immediately after I put my head on the pillow. And some time or other I awakened and I could hear a little soft music in the background and a lot of conversation, and I said...
...like a young girl with a bit of a moustache." Such was the appearance of the greatest German of his time. Otto von Bismarck made Prussia dominant in Germany and Germany dominant in Europe. He has inspired a shelf of biographies but remains essentially a riddle. Was he a selfless hero or a scheming tyrant...