Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iranian oil (mostly made up from other Middle East sources) than by the increasing danger that Iran, strife-racked, almost bankrupt, and near chaos, will topple into the Red fold. The U.S.-British offer, which had obviously cost the U.S. much diplomatic sweat and the British a lot of pride...
...this third and most important volume of his memoirs, telling of his ordeal, Hoover writes as a man in anguished earnest, a man whose pride of historical place has been irretrievably hurt. As Hoover sees it, he was far from being the helpless victim of uncontrollable economic forces. Though it may come as a surprise to many wounded veterans of the Great Depression, he insists that he knew just what to do, and was vigorously doing it when his opponents took power, threw away all his gains and prolonged the depression for seven more years...
...land reform program. Then, in drinking and gambling on flower cards, Ichiro had lost all but half an acre of the rice land. He had to hire out to other villagers. Still, he had a docile, hard-working wife and three fine daughters, of whom his special pride was the middle one, Satsuki (May Moon). May Moon, plump, smart and 17, was an honor student at the local high school, and read Jefferson, Lincoln, Hawthorne, Goethe, De Maupassant, Wilde and Gide...
This sounds like the Existentialist answer to the modern dilemma-an answer which assumes that all questions of faith are pointless and only man's pride and courage are of value. It is an answer that would have left Kafka as restless as before and convinced Dostoevsky that the Nihilists had won the day. But Author Buzzati, no Existentialist himself, presents it as a universal truth, a faith to die for; and so, though The Tartar Steppe suffers from being a copy of The Castle, it gains from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like...
...Contest gold has all the lure of pirate gold" is a favorite maxim of Wilmer S. Shepherd, founder of the Shepherd Correspondence School of Contest Technique ("the Harvard of contest schools") in Philadelphia. Last week, Wilmer Shepherd was bubbling with pride because one of his students, Mrs. Beatrice A. Zimmer of Modesto, Calif, had won nylons for life in the Sachet Nylon last-line contest. He claims that in 21 years his students, mostly housewives, have won-through radio & TV, magazines, etc.-more than 40,000 prizes valued...