Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then I hope to make this truth clear-that, on all this earth, not anywhere does our nation seek territory, selfish gain or unfair advantage for itself. I hope all can understand that beyond her shores, as at home, America aspires only to promote human happiness, justly achieved...
...these shamans of big-time football turn for advice to the coach at a small Eastern college? Answer: Delaware's chess-playing, 39-year-old David Moir Nelson has one of the finest football brains in the business. And, says Dietzel, "he is not selfish in sharing his knowledge with others." In a word, "Admiral" Nelson is the coaches' coach...
...Princeton has selfish motives for wishing repeal of this act," Charles E. Lister '60 charged. He suggested that Princeton's geographic isolation results in a desire among Tiger undergraduates for increased interstate commerce. A series of bi-weekly mixers for Princeton men with New Jersey girls schools might ease their problem, Lister continued...
...state one of its finest educators and administrators. Some senators resented Mather's resignation for the political sympathy it aroused and they misinterpreted his motives; one senator accused him of "trying to play the part of a martyr for education when he is actually scheming to protect his own selfish interests." The senator was utterly mistaken. Mather still does not know what post he will assume come next July. His resignation, however brought much public interest into the open; UMass may well have received more favorable publicity in the 31 days between the death of Bill 1030 and the passage...
...cast a shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging from nowhere...