Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge stood on a platform outside Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital this week to dedicate a new wing. Around him, admiring the creamy brick and the green marble trim of the Hughes Spalding Pavilion, was a mixed audience of whites and Negroes. With pride, the governor pointed to the excellence of the $1,850,000 building -as good as any of its kind in the U.S. Then Dixiecrat Talmadge, apostle of white supremacy, handed the building over to Dr. Benjamin Mays in behalf of his 200,000 fellow Negro citizens in the area...
...World War II, when the Good Neighbor policy was blowing hot. On a visit to Washington in 1939, Tacho reminded his hosts that the U.S. had never built the interoceanic canal across Nicaragua for which it had obtained rights 23 years earlier. But, he said, Nicaragua's wounded pride might be restored by a 6-ft. barge canal linking the principal cities with the Atlantic. According to Tacho, Vice President Jack Garner tipped the scales in his favor by turning to F.D.R., highball in hand, and drawling: "Why don't you give this boy his ditch...
While the journalist salve might have soothed the University's hurt pride, the team didn't seem to listen. Determined to salvage a mediocre season. It marched determinedly into the stadium to face a highly favored Yale powerhouse. Battling within the shadow of its own goal-posts for 60 minutes, the varsity kept the Bulldog leashed and gained a 0 to 0 tie. The nation's press was unanimous in its praise for the courageous eleven...
...French take pride in the artistic appearance of their paper money, but the only French currency that has their unswerving faith is a little gold coin about the size of a U.S. nickel. The napoleon (named for the ruler who first issued it) has a nominal value of 20 francs, or less than a cent. On France's free money market, it brings 4,000 francs ($11.40). But the visitor to France is not likely to pick up many napoleons. The thrifty, inflation-wise French keep their gold-an estimated $5 billion worth-hidden away in socks, sugar bowls...
...justly advertise, with pride: "Twenty degrees more cool inside...