Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth may be a poor competitor in the marketplace of ideas. A tragic example is Germany, where Nazi excesses in the name of the fatherland left such scars that today patriotism is for Germans an embarrassing idea...
...competitor never understands when he has had enough," he says. "It was this sort of drive in my case." After the fact, he has reformed, now puts emphasis on the title "emeritus." He quit smoking. For exercise, he jogs in place beside his bed each morning, then performs calisthenics. He plans to resume tennis next spring, already takes regular walks. "And walking," he added at week's end on vacation in Hyannis, Mass., "is becoming increasingly possible because I no longer give a damn whether I get somewhere in a hurry...
...dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie countered with his own ad calling Sullivan "sick, sick, sick." Such is his relative benignity that the worst he can say for his old competitor Jack Paar is that he is a "thoroughly no-good son of a bitch. That's spelled...
...against shadows" that were cast by his older brothers and his strong-willed father. In a family that dismissed second best as no better than last, Bobby developed from what one acquaintance called "a hell of a nice little boy" into what Shannon describes as a ferocious, "mildly sadistic" competitor who inherited "a certain natural savagery" from his father...
Labor's militancy is also prompted in part by inter-and intra-union rivalries, which force each faction to try to win more than its competitor. A bitter feud between the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-affiliated American Federation of Teachers and the older National Education Asso ciation has escalated teachers' demands in the past few years. Similarly, Walter Reuther may have been less ready for his U.A.W. to settle with Ford because of his own longstanding differences with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...