Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of airways from Tokyo to Bangkok -will first overhaul, then charter or sell the planes. Said Chennault: "My interest is to keep them away from the Reds. This is the first Communist defeat in the Far East. That's the thing I take the most pride...
...hurried to Chicago, buoyed by a strong old man's fierce pride, strutted five blocks through heat and applause, and girded himself to grasp the ultimate prize. Then, with cruel suddenness, the prize was snatched away. The Stevenson boom had never really died; when Barkley invited some labor friends, among them the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther and Jack Kroll, to a friendly breakfast, they carelessly told him the awful truth...
Oklahoma oilmen took time off to go to an art exhibit last week, and swelled with pride at what they saw. On show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa were 30 paintings that told the story of petroleum -step by step from geologist camp right down to the huge refineries, with their silvery tank farms and mazelike array of pipes and towers...
...radio sportcasters in his dressing room, came out and trotted once more around the track to the roar of 5,000 diehard fans. He had racked up a total of 7,887 points, 62 points better than his own world record. But the cheering was not all for the pride of Tulare: his two team mates, New Jersey's 1 8-year-old Milton Campbell and North Carolina's Floyd Simmons had nailed down second and third places for a U.S. sweep of the Olym pics' most demanding test...
Thus, 15 months after he took power promising his people "comfort and ease," the great nationalist departed, leaving his country richer in pride and poorer in power and pocketbook. He had cut off Iran's nose to spite its face. Deprived of $100 million a year in direct and indirect revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., unable to sell its oil abroad, Iran's treasury was running into the red at a $10 million-a-month clip. Mossadegh's policies were bankrupt, and Iran was nearly...