Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denmark vibrated with pride, and the Danish state radio flew over a special broadcaster. The night before the finals, Kurt drank a victory toast (champagne) to himself and asked cheerfully: "What have I got to lose?" The celebration ended on Wimbledon's center court next day, when the youthful Nielsen faced the U.S.'s second-seeded Vic Seixas, a robust 29-year-old playing the best tennis of his nomadic life (TIME, March...
...approbation of my countrymen, I shall be satisfied. It still rests with them to compleat my washes by adopting such a system of Policy as will ensure the future reputation, tranquility, happiness and glory of this extensive Empire." The man is all in that passage-his humility, his pride, his sense of honor, his realistic misgivings, his love of order, his vision of "this extensive Empire." The nation, however, was not yet born, the "system of Policy" not yet constructed. All the courage and suffering of the war might be lost in the quarrels and confusions of a peace without...
...good spirits gave rise to suggestions that the Prime Minister's illness might be more diplomatic than real, but the talk ignored the reputation of the doctors involved and Churchill's vast pride in his ability to carry on. On top of that, acting Prime Minister Butler quickly let it be known that he was proposing that representatives of the Big Three get together very soon anyway to tackle problems that were supposed to come up at Bermuda...
...stationmaster but a freight foreman, Louis retired in 1949 at the age of 65, full of pride in his five sons, all of whom went to college, and two married daughters; proud, too, to be a city councilman, and proud of the new world that had brought him so many good things...
...During all this, the angels . . . merely looked on and watched . . . except that one-the splendid dark incorrigible one, who possessed the arrogance and pride to demand with, and the temerity to object with, and the ambition to substitute with ... So God even used the ambition. He already presaw the long roster of the ambition's ruthless avatars-Genghis and Caesar . . . and Stalin and Bonaparte and Huey Long...