Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noblemen. In his first speech before the Treviso seminary as its spiritual instructor he said: "I am no professor, just a country priest, whom God has most unaccountably brought among you. Remember that study and knowledge and science, excellent things in themselves, are perverted if they become objects of pride...
...Though the solution to the problem may be difficult, complicated and long, the government should realize that it can solve the Communist problem only by strengthening the middle class, helping it financially and morally, restoring its dignity, authority, pride and self-confidence . . . If Italians who are in a position to change our economy just wait to see how things go, how elections turn out, how others defend them from Communism, then the battle is lost...
...owes millions and is considered vulnerable by some Texans, who think that he is already spread too thin. Murchison thinks not, as long as he is able to borrow more against his oil reserves and other holdings. Says he: "Cash makes a man careless." Both he and Richardson pride themselves on the fortunes they owe. "Murchison," Richardson once said, "I'm a bigger success than you are. Some of my paper is held in London." When Murchison once decided to get out of debt, Richardson talked...
...fight. . . The fall of the entrenched camp was accomplished only because the enemy, thanks to Chinese Communist assistance, was suddenly able to start a form of modern warfare entirely new to Indo-China. The defenders of Dienbienphu have written an epic. They have given [you] a new pride and a new reason to fight. For the struggle of free peoples against slavery does not end today. The fight continues...
...voluntarily. Hawaii and Alaska are close to statehood; Puerto Rico has been offered more independence than its loyal American citizens are willing to accept. In the Pacific, the U.S. is keeping most of the bases it won from Japan (e.g., Okinawa), but in the Philippines it can point with pride to unprecedented colonial achievement. The Philippine Republic is unique not because it is well run and democratic (many British colonies are, too), but because its people, voting freely, elected President Ramon Magsaysay, a man whose platform is solidarity with the former "imperialist Yankee...