Word: self-respect
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...their posts have spent the summer talking a good deal of drivel about poor countries, some of it inane, much of it puerile, and nearly all of it misleading. They have appealed to charity ("in India a man's average annual income is $80"), to conscience (development means new self-respect, new freedom"), and self-interest ("the outcome of the cold war depends on whether we can develop these countries before the Communists do"), They have asked for programs, which they call "bold new ventures," and for money, which they call "a flexible investment approach...
...next move is up to Davis. If a real crisis occurs, said S.R.C. last week, "prospects will be gloomy for the South and for national self-respect." But if New Orleans complies, "the myth of Southern ability to defy the law will have been fatally punctured; the consequences could be an emotional release in the upper South that would enable desegregation to move without the lash...
...loyalty of those forces." By giving a committee summary powers to investigate and punish police and army men, Inonu argued, the Democrats had "inevitably" proclaimed doubts of the officers' loyalties. "Those who seek to establish a coercive regime must believe that the Turkish nation is imbued with less self-respect than Korea," he cried...
...hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...
...basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment are civilized values that we should cherish. Van Doren affronted those values as much (before the subcommittee) as he ever did on Twenty...