Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attlee and the Chinese Communists. While we in Britain deplore the extremes of McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea don't get up from their graves with disgust...
...country cottage and live out his days on the equivalent of $10 a week. Said he: "There is nothing that I want to do, and nothing particularly that I am glad to have done." He added bitterly: "Man is not an animal in which intelligence can take much pride." A year later, flying into a skid on his motorcycle, he dashed his brains out against a tree...
Frank Forbes says: "I was worried to death about the kind of people [Mays] might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place . . ." Why does the pride of New York have to live in Harlem? We who are about to be Supreme Court-martialed expect Yankees to show us the way (we don't even say d- Yankees any more). Suspect our Northern friends have too many irons in the fire, none of which...
...peculiar point of pride. Gonzalez' countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio, 43, had not even entered the race. But aficionados of the Grand Prix circuit understood. José Gonzalez, to hear Gonzalez tell it, is the best sports-car pilot on the road. But year after year the veteran Fangio kept winning the battle for Grand Prix points...
...valid claim, and I think it would be narrow and stupid for the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. One cannot bargain with a nation if one avoids it. One cannot run away from one's enemies. I say, meet with the Communist Chinese. Rather lose pride across the conference table than lose lives across no man's land...