Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Eisenhowers came down from the mountains for a visit in Den ver at Great-Grandmother Doud's. "He's a good boy," said Ike, swelling with grandfatherly pride. "He does exactly what you tell...
...grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father has led to her attaching to his initials. C.G.D., the phrase, "Country's Greatest Democrat"). About to begin her freshman year at Notre Dame College on Staten Island, Geraldine is working this summer, but not very hard, as a stenographer in De Sapio's national committee...
...farm, the President looked relaxed and happy. It was the first time he had really been able to stretch his legs at the farm, and his first respite from his heavy duties around the White House and at the Geneva conference since late April. He looked around with obvious pride: the corn stood nine feet high in some fields, and the contoured hay, wheat and oat fields had been stripped of the harvest. The pastures looked a little parched by the midsummer sun, but a good, drenching rain would (and did, later in the week) bring them back. Farmer Eisenhower...
Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...
...week, as Miss Gatlinburg of 1955 posed prettily on the first tee, a blindfolded caddy, toting a borrowed Geiger counter, demonstrated that a radioactive golf ball could be found no matter how deep the grass or how dense the bushes off the fairway. For all Booster Leiper's pride, however, the atomic golf ball was still only an experiment. Even if the Atomic Energy Commission approved their manufacture, radioactive golf balls would cost $20 to $35 apiece, too expensive for any but the best-heeled Wastelanders...