Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike seems less important than the right to work." At any rate, we wish Mr. Prochnow luck in his new job at the State Department, and we hope he thinks up many more ways "to point out the foibles of men, to goad them into action, to shatter their pride, and to awaken humor." STEPHEN R. BARNRTT
Some, the enemies of change in North Africa, were delighted. "The condition of the government is deteriorating satisfactorily," crowed one Deputy. All week long, owlish Edgar Faure maneuvered desperately to keep his government in power. He appealed to Frenchmen's patriotic pride, charging that the North African troubles were part of an "international offensive" against France, defending France's walkout from the U.N. Assembly rather than accept debate on Algeria. "Although France is weakened at present, she remains strong enough to abandon nothing of her national dignity." he cried...
...brother are so skillfully transformed by Captain Mallet that they forget they are related, and settle down happily as housekeeper and butler. The process of persuasion-a proposition of mind over no-matter-is gentle and artistic. With the sensitivity of great sculptors, the identity changers mold a pride here, add an envy there, knead habits into place. In naming a butler, for instance: "We begin with the premise that every butler believes he was born to command a fleet . . . But Nelson was too common a name . . . Beatty. . . too rowdy for a butler. The same for Mountbatten. But in Jellicoe...
RECKLESS, PRIDE OF THE MARINES-Andrew Geer-Dutton...
...recent trip South had so thoroughly demoralized my race pride and spirit that I felt I just couldn't go back to teaching Sunday school...