Word: unselfishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state in the man's world of the Mediterranean, this was the last straw. She fired back her own letter to Papandreou and had it delivered to all of the Athens papers. "The late King Paul and I," she wrote, "lived our whole life inspired only by our unselfish love for our people and our family. After the cruel loss of my husband, it is with these happy memories that I wish to live, quietly and in peace. Yet in my desire to safeguard my dignity as Queen of the Hellenes for 17 years and as Queen Mother...
...news function on rather curious grounds. "A news event on TV is just another TV program," says Detroit News TV Columnist Frank Judge, who thinks more televiewers should watch the news and encourages News readers to do just that. Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler is even more unselfish. "I'm the first to admit that TV news is very good here," says Chandler. "But just because television is a good competitor is no reason for reducing your coverage...
Midst laurels stood: Comedian Bob Hope, 61, given the National Citizenship Award of the Military Chaplains Association for his "tireless, unselfish efforts" to bring "warmth and cheer by personal visits" to U.S. servicemen; Composer Benjamin Britten, 50, winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle awards in two categories-operatic (for A Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that...
...series was established in 1903 by friends of Edward L. Godkin, founder of The Nation, to stimulate "that spirit of independent thought and unselfish devotion to the public good which characterized his life and distinguished career...
...world today?" He underlined the "peculiar logic" of De Gaulle, which sees Britain and the U.S. as enemies, when "the reality of the danger is that all free men and nations live under the constant threat of the Communist advance." U.S. concern, Kennedy conceded, was not totally unselfish. Washington hopes that British membership in the Common Market will help build a united Europe that can share with the U.S. the burden of solving the problems of the world's have-not nations...