Word: servante
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...Lord, we commit this boy, thy servant, to your hands," the minister prays, and all the good citizens nod their heads solemnly. Many have buried mothers and fathers already, and they know the protocol of death...
...treat blacks decently mainly as a matter of self-protection. A mistreated kid, for example, may hurt a cop when he gets big and dangerous. But ultimately, as Wilson sees it, every man on the beat must go beyond self-interest and somehow learn to see himself as a servant of all citizens ?blacks as well as whites. Fast police response in the ghetto, Wilson thinks, is the best contribution that police can make to racial peace in his city...
...THINK of myself as a career public servant," says Elliot Richardson, 49, the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer named last week to succeed Robert Finch as the boss of HEW. He knows the premises; he served as HEW Assistant Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration and turned down the HEW undcr-secretaryship under Nixon, explaining that "I had already been through all that." Instead, he has been the No. 2 man in the State Department, where he has displayed a talent for management that will be exercised to the full in picking up the pieces at diffuse and demoralized...
...talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl, his own wife's selfless devotion, his father's love, a servant's self-respect. His obsessive sexuality is chillingly sexless...
...Carrillo received the doctorate of Law for being a "brilliant scholar-diplomat, honored servant of his country, friend of ours; his notable career has advanced amity and understanding in our hemisphere," according to the Harvard citation...