Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he would bring about a better and a fairer balance of life in the islands. What, then, divides them and the President? It is partly Magsaysay's refusal (erratic and inconsistent, but nevertheless determining) to play the game of politics as they know it. Partly it is pride: for example, old and venerated Senator José Laurel, the man who did most to elect Magsaysay under Nacionalista banners, expects to be recognized and consulted as one of Magsaysay's principal advisers and fiercely resents Magsaysay's failure to do so openly and regularly. But mostly...
Only by small and frivolous outward signs can the world measure the Kremlin's inner struggle for power. But what makes the frivolous fundamental is the importance the Communist leaders themselves attach to pride of place: Who stands nearest the center atop Lenin's tomb? Who waves to the mob? Who doesn't? (On May Day, only Nikita Khrushchev did; on May 30, Khrushchev and Malenkov, in identical suits, waved identical hats...
...Pride & Prejudice. In Moji, Japan, after they advised three newly elected beauty queens to be "chaste and virtuous and never easily seduced by men," city officials got hundreds of letters from male citizens, who complained that such advice was "a violation of basic human rights...
...fake CRIMSON to the effect that Princeton football coach Roper had died during the game with Harvard. This fraud issue greeted the 54,000 fans packed into the Stadium after the Tiger had convincingly beaten Harvard. The upshot of the affair was that Princeton formally, and with the wounded pride which comes with unprovoked criticism, severed athletic connections with Harvard...
Bidault's firmness reflected and helped increase some sense of a new firmness in France itself. The fall of Dienbienphu had not led to hysterical demands for peace at any price, as the Communists had hoped. French pride was offended. French anger aroused. At the much feared debate on Indo-China, French Assemblymen had cried not for immediate surrender, but for more vigorous efforts to meet new Viet Minh attacks. The Cabinet itself reacted. It pledged itself to the defense of the whole Red River Delta. Marc Jacquet, an apostle of despair, was forced out. General Navarre was relieved...