Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time I ever tried to paint hands," said the President in a tone of mixed pride and shyness. "It is very dark around the eyes," he added, thoughtfully. "I'm very awkward." Then he showed Jones a note written on the back of the canvas in grease-pencil: "Bob, by his friend D.D.E...
Their smoky, orange-red torches of bamboo and pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the unity they had found in their common peril, that they could celebrate amidst such desolation...
...Leverett family memoir heralds the appointment in a manner typical of the time: "In the zenith of his fame and popularity . . . Judge 'Leverett was elected to the presidency of Harvard College-the cherished seat of learning of the country and the pride and ornament of New England...
...today's sad songs, people merely sob or suffer from wounded pride. Moreover, Nelly is no longer a lady Stephen Foster would have understood. She tells her boy friend: "Come on-a my house," or howls "hold me, thrill me, kiss...
...born, but rather becomes a woman . . . It is civilization . . . that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch . . ." From childhood she is "fated . . . to be the passive prey of man," to awake in him "an unknown being whom he recognizes with pride as himself." What man dreads above all, Author de Beauvoir believes, is woman's ceasing to be his most priceless "idea" and becoming very much like himself. For this reason, he never pries into the recesses of her mind: it might give her the notion that she has a mind. On the other hand, there...