Word: unselfish
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...trip will be essentially ceremonial rather than political. Sniffed a German politician: "A museumlike event for two old gentlemen." It is certainly a historic one. But De Gaulle's speeches-some of which will be delivered in his halting German-will focus on a more significant and unselfish aim: his deep desire to show the world that France and West Germany have buried past differences and forged a lasting amity. "De Gaulle," mused a French diplomat, "will be bringing the Germans a kind of moral absolution." Other French officials believe that De Gaulle's personal "magic" will work...
...countermanding the board, the trustees were within their rights. By the letter of Joseph Pulitzer's will, which founded the annual prize contest, Swanberg's biography seems patently disqualified on subject matter alone: William Randolph Hearst was hardly noted for teaching "patriotic and unselfish services to the people." But if such literal considerations guided the trustees, they stood on shaky ground. They had, after all, endorsed the board's decision to bestow the drama prize on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a Broadway musical that for all its merits as a polished farce hardly...
Virginia, simply because she is pregnant (by Trimmer). "Can you tell me any sane reason for doing this thing?" a friend asks him, and he answers: "I don't think I've ever in my life done a single positively unselfish action. Here was something most unwelcome, put into my hands; something which I believe the Americans describe as 'beyond the call of duty'; not the normal behavior of an officer and gentleman; something they'll laugh about in Bellamy's." His second excursion beyond call of duty is to make a nuisance...
...freshman team must be evaluated as a team. The squad was unselfish, with every player cooperating towards the team effort. It was not a colorful group because the parts fitted together so smoothly. In the final analysis, the freshman aggregation was a team, the players functioning and working together, sensitive to even the thoughts of their teammates. They almost reached the pinnacle of the idea of intercollegiate athletics...
...studies of the presidential work load drafted by Eisenhower commissions, and 2) a precis of the unfinished business left by the departing President? And, he added in his quietly persuasive way, how states manlike for the junior Senator from Ar kansas to propose the performance of such an unselfish service to someone in the Administration - perhaps Douglas Dillon, Under Secretary of State. Fulbright agreed to give the idea full consideration...