Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Future Hazard. Despite his evident pride of accomplishment, Ike saw no grounds for complacency. "I know of no official of this Administration," he said, "so foolish as to believe that we, who in January came to Washington, have seen and conquered all the problems of our nation. The future, both immediate and distant, remains full of trial and hazard. The end of our staggering economic burden is not yet in sight. The end of the peril to peace is not clearly in view...
...beam showed itself above the city wall. It does credit to his legend that he is said to have fired part of the enemy fleet with burning glasses. Thus Syracuse resisted for three years until betrayed, almost entirely through the efforts of an aroused intellectual, who took no special pride in practical accomplishment, but no doubt simply felt that the exceptional man should as a matter of course be the exceptional citizen...
Complex Justification. Only in this single remark did some of the private bitterness of the U.N. command reach the surface. The top commanders, like everyone else, were glad that the bloodshed was ended, but they took no pride in their achievement, and they felt no satisfaction in the armistice they were ordered to sign. They knew the argument that in this war freedom had been defended and aggression repelled, but, cabled TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin, "they all seem concerned that some day they will be called on to explain why they signed the present armistice. Several I've talked...
...work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...
...Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 71, who succeeded William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of his party and nation in 1948. St. Laurent was using an old and effective campaign technique. He traveled around the country making unemotional speeches, talking to schoolchildren like a wise old grandfather, mentioning with pride the accomplishments of his government, but abstaining almost wholly from campaign promises. With a powerful, entrenched party behind him, his own unmatched personal popularity, and an enviable record of producing both social services (e.g., old-age pensions, baby bonuses) and budgetary surpluses, St. Laurent could probably afford his leisurely...