Word: unselfish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard and Radcliffe and will be conducting interviews with students during the next few weeks. The data from the interviews will be incorporated in a book called The Basic Haman Issue -an examination of the way people attempt to mask their innate egotism while deluding themselves that they are unselfish, according to co-author Paul Treegarden...
...Love," the pamphlet claims, is notan unselfish emotion but a response to the challenge and "psychic masochism" of the love-power relationship. Winning a girl is "like conquering Everest or reaching the moon," the pamphlet explains. "Why do you suppose the moon-that big bubble in the sky-has such a special significance to 'lovers' anyway...
...That will be a problem, but we're talking about unselfish basketball players," Fitzsimmons said. "Floyd and James are equipped with unparalleled abilities. yet I'm sure that we'll be able to complement each other...
...rookie year, Alcindor is averaging 16 rebounds a game and scoring at a 32-point pace with his derricklike hook shots and whirling dunks. Snared from Cincinnati in a masterful trading coup, Robertson is playing as well as he ever has in his ten-year N.B.A. career. Remarkably unselfish for a superstar, he has sacrificed a bit of his scoring average (19.7 per game) to help set big Lew up for the close-in shot. As the team's record proves, Robertson has been exactly the kind of veteran court general that the youthful Bucks-including starting Forwards...
...buttress free trade throughout the world. Secondly, the kind of reorientation Beard and Williams advocated would not inherently isolate the United States from the world. With less proclivity to intervene in the interests of a world market system, we might feel more inclined to act vigorously out of unselfish interest in cooperation with a world organization to solve the general problems of hunger and misery. By ceasing to define all non-market economies as enemies, we might forge ? less dangerous world political system. Since the open door policy has failed to stabilize a revolutionary worid, endorsement of self-determination...