Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano lessons. She could not make up her mind whether to go to college or not. She did not get around to reading much. But she did get some fun out of tormenting mediocre boys. She was clearly a setup for a ruthless and clever man whose egoism would outweigh hers...
...Hellfire") Lanson's mountainous egoism crushed hers like a mouse. A good-looking, powerful, self-educated fellow-Swinburne was his favorite poet; Nietzsche was his god-Ed's flood of talk was mostly a lurid rehash of his reading. Ellen was too ignorant even to understand much of it, but it fascinated her. Ed was a good salesman, but he hated to kowtow to people, tossed up one job after another. He liked to stay away from home, living in hotels and boardinghouses...
They, their stenches, their minds and their diet repelled and depressed him at first. He came deeply to like and admire them. In the months of reading with them the Arctic's "Book of Silence," he lost haste, worry, rebelliousness, egoism. By spring he was so much one of them that he was painfully ill at ease-and bored-at sight of a white...
...salute you, England, full of envy, egoism is yours. May you be damned among sanctionist nations, result of your meanness. Holy Fascist cause, mother of civilization, fight for rights for the greatness of the Italian Empire, now, till the day of our death. Amen...
Fuming with rage, Il Duce's personal organ Popolo d'Italia screamed: "Italy will not accept Britain's dirty morality. . . . This immoral law which tries to take the air you breathe if that air suits the brutality of British egoism must cease...