Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert halls of Europe; his recordings are still ranked at the top of their field. He is a musicologist whose edition of Bach's organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical...
Vandenberg was cited for "his selfless devotion to the cause of a just peace, his leadership in the bi-partisan foreign policy, and his historic contribution to the political and military unity of the Atlantic Community...
Behind the pink, tubby façade of rich Clendenin John Ryan, the soul of the selfless public servant throbbed. Unlike many another son of privilege, he did not collect show girls; he devoted himself to business and the sober pursuit of turning rascals out of government...
Hopkins, the once selfless social worker, began to show all the signs of an avidly ambitious politician. Writes Sherwood: "Harry Hopkins, in the promotion of his own slender chances, was impelled to connive, plot and even to misrepresent . . ." Then, says Sherwood, when his illness compelled Hopkins to renounce that impossible ambition, "in the war years . . . he became and remained one of the most incorruptible...
...caught in the barbarism and demoralization of the Nazi army. Whitacre gets hold of himself by learning the values of sacrifice in a common, just cause. And Ackerman emerges from a harrowing ordeal of anti-Semitic persecution in an Army camp to become the ideal democratic soldier: thoughtful, selfless, heroic...