Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, we felt betrayed and disappointed in you . . . Now naturally, the people are going to feel sympathy and gratitude toward the Russians. But gratitude is not the same thing as Communist principles. Indeed, the greatest thing the arms deal has done is to give our people a feeling of pride in themselves and pride in their country...
...Youssef returns. At week's end the French government itself bowed to the inevitable and formally decided that the man they had exiled so peremptorily two years ago could return to Morocco's vacant throne when ever it suited him. This might be hard on French pride, but what was pride if peace...
...famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...
...cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says he: "The Negro press has depended too much on emotion and racial pride. Negroes have grown out of that...
There is an increasing tendency today toward free choice of religion, he said, and this tendency will grow as the world grows closer together. If Christianity is to win new converts, its followers must purge themselves of "exclusive-mindedness," the sin of collective pride, he added. They need to recognize that Christian truths are not exclusively Christian, but universal, he said...