Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat...
...infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish . . . the natural from the unnatural, the living from the cadaverous...
...huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure he is right, he stands pat against threats and legal action...
This is not all altruism: there is no union at Nellie's, despite the determined efforts of Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union to organize the plant. Nellie has made sure that her employees see no need to join...
What were the U.S. motives in giving aid to Europe? To halt Communism is the reason most often given. Few Europeans believe that the U.S. is acting out of pure altruism. Nor do many Europeans believe the Communist line that the Marshall Plan is primarily intended to impose U.S. capitalism in Europe or to enable the U.S. to get rid of its goods in order to escape a depression. Frenchmen are more ready than other Europeans to believe the latter motive; even so, the 26% of Frenchmen who think the U.S. is trying to get rid of its goods...