Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is man?" "Most essentially, he is a bundle of nervous tissue." The venerable professor nodded with pride...
Between the acts of Swan Lake one evening last week, the Vice President of the U.S. and his lady strolled to the front entrance of the mammoth opera house that is the pride of Novosibirsk, the raw young industrial city (pop. 877,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of Siberia." From the impatient, densely packed crowd milling in front of the theater a female voice shouted: "Say something...
...chief executives of the three largest U.S. steel companies faced a task that was a mixture of. pride and embarrassment. With the steel union in its third week of a strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with...
...budget and dealer network are so limited that, as Churchill says, "our car must sell itself." He constantly preaches quality, plasters plants with signs proclaiming, QUALITY CAN'T BE REPAIRED INTO A CAR. He fears that as the U.S. living standard has gone up, the pride of the U.S. worker in doing a quality job has gone down. "Mercedes-Benz products are the highest crafted autos in the world," he says of the West German cars that S.P. distributes in the U.S. "We couldn't build the kind of product Mercedes-Benz builds." Mercedes' maker, Daimler-Benz...
Byrne is a man who commands strictly and by the book, a document he knows wearily and well after what seems a life-time-and-a-half as a professional sergeant in the regular U.S. Army. At 38. he holds his first commission in the 10th Cavalry* without pride. He maintains that he is color-blind-to black, red and white. But two fierce military actions teach him differently. A forced march through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes...