Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formidable constituency, came out solidly behind the idea and said that he hopes to sign a bill into law before Con gress goes home this week - a doubtful prospect at this point. In any case, Nix on had made the gesture. In a sense, it was even a grandly selfless move: since the White House telecommunications network can pick up virtually any broadcast in the country, Nixon person ally never has to miss a Washington Redskins game on the tube...
Soviet films have had a spotty history. I've seen so many crude melodramas about the Civil War (featuring the noble peasants and workers led by some selfless fellow curiously resembling Lenin) that they've even lost their sense of camp for me. But the day of such films is clearly past. The understanding, subtlety and just plain good taste with which Uncle Vanya has been produced is clear evidence of and high tribute to the rising quality of Soviet films...
...Selfless. Nowhere has Sharman's shaping been more evident than in the play of Chamberlain, who earns about $250,000 a year as center and has occasionally been accused of being something less than a team player. Not this season. Never in his 13-year pro career has the "Dipper" concentrated so little on shooting (he once scored 100 points for Philadelphia against New York) and ILLUSTRATED so much on rebounding, blocking shots and setting up someone else to score. As an intimidating pivot and selfless team captain. Chamberlain has led the Lakers to their new heights...
...McManama, center on the Local Line, was given the Weiland Award for "aggressive and spirited play and selfless contribution to total team effort." An all-Ivy and all-East selection, he tied with linemate Dave Hynes for the scoring lead with 54 points this winter...
...crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...