Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Party, he said,' was absolutely against an independent federation that would be run for and by the whites, but "I am speaking for the whole Labor movement when I tell you to be patient. I ask you particularly not to use violence. I ask you to have pride in your country. Hold your heads high and behave as though this country belonged to you. Do not do anything of which you might be ashamed...
...bandwagon with top British Rocker Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957), picked up Smith and gave him his new name. Parnes is as mystical as a horse breeder about the importance of names, and the monikers sprouted as fast as his stable: Billy Fury, 17, light-sideburned Dicky Pride, 17, Vince Eager, 18, and Johnny Gentle, the old man of the group at 22. "What you have to do with a name is bring out their inward personality," Parnes explains...
Next day another announcement merely served to twist the knife in Chicago's wounded pride: the canceled tour, said ANTA, would be taken over by the New York Philharmonic, under the leadership of Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...There had been bred within this painter," says Sellers, "a call to the lofty and obscure and an artist's sensitive pride. He had seen from within himself what held the sun and stars and planets in their courses, but could not find his way and purposes among the nearer things. He had to have, somewhere in the world, a place of perfection of his own, though it should be only the little one of laughter, of surprise, only the illusion of fruit upon a table rich with the juices of summer...
...problem should be purely technical. But commercial competition and nationalistic pride confuse the issue. The British press has been loud in defense of the British Decca navigation system. Cried the Daily Express: "The Americans are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effective, but with big dollar investments behind it." Though the U.S. press has paid little attention, U.S., Government and commercial agencies are propagandizing vigorously in favor of the U.S. navigation system VOR/DMET...