Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abandonment-without even a popular referendum-of her majestic Indian territory of Pondicherry . . . If this deliberate withdrawal from French territory is a part of Mendès-France's new cooperative and "advanced" program, then I pity the fate of the remainder of the French Republic's pride and glory...
...proprietors of Arizona's luxurious Camelback Inn point with pride to their "mouthwatering food" and the hotel's location in the "dry. healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed...
...French people were bursting with pride over the succes formidable of their little, black-browed Premier in the U.S. In six days, Pierre Mendes-France had dispelled most of U.S. officialdom's lingering suspicions that he was a neutralist at heart and all too willing to flirt with Russia. U.S. negotiators learned to respect his tough-minded realism, and ordinary bystanders compulsively burst into applause as he passed. "The American people took M. Mendes-France to their hearts,'' said U.S. Ambassador to France Douglas Dillon, "and I can fairly state that . . . Franco-American relations have never been...
...expanded program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid...
...much publicized Yale injuries, Olivar was without his usual depth, but lacked only one starter, fullback Steve Ackerman. The Crimson lost its star wingback Bob Cowles on the first play of the game. As a matter of fact, probably the greatest Yale injury Saturday was to Olivar's pride...