Word: unselfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naturally we are not unselfish . . . we long to have a real German boy to press to our bosom. Don't be shy. Your wife, your sister, or your sweetheart is also...
...longer look to Mr. Roosevelt for great, unselfish leadership in foreign affairs (witness his petulant attitude toward General de Gaulle), let alone national affairs, for he is obviously too preoccupied with playing the starring role in the great world drama of intrigue and power politics to speak with candor on crucial issues, to answer the searching questions of the world's bewildered and suffering people...
...occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence and the good business principles of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers, plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock troops of the Lord-the Salvation Army, who fight in the trenches of sin's no-man's land to reclaim the tortured souls and clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of a snobbish world forgot...
...think your recent analysis of the unfolding stratagems of the major G.O.P. candidates has been excellent. This reader holds the conviction that Wendell Willkie's aggressive leadership, honesty, clear and unselfish world outlook will prove to be winning politics this year. To me, one of the most promising features of Mr. Willkie's candidacy is that the Old Guard is opposed to him. In more "normal" political times the evasive, nonconstructive but "politically astute" maneuvers of Dewey, Bricker and the Old Guard might achieve success with voters, but this will not be a normal year...
...intensely as he feels it) that American history is epical and epochmaking, James Truslow Adams has held up against his naturally hopeful outlook the insistent forebodings of the U.S. future that his knowledge gave him. In 1934 he wrote: "We are all of us caught, the selfish and the unselfish alike, in the complexities of the modern order. . . . No previous problem has ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind and character. It is possible that the world may prove lacking in one or both. . . ." By 1937 his fears had grown more specific: "There may well...