Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished audience sat entranced as trumpets sounded from the heights of the basilica and Father Emile Martin's crack St.-Eustache choir gave full throat to the music. With the final rousing chorus of Vivat Rex in Aeternum, the critics were aglow with Gallic pride...
...Stengel was truculently happy about a lot of things. As if answering unspoken criticism, and, as usual, rarely mentioning a player by name, Stengel talked with pride of his world champions: "I got the best outfield in the business . . . I'm five deep ... No other club's got more than two . . . What's the matter with Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling? Nothing! They could play for any team. I got those three kids [Mickey Mantle, Jackie Jensen and Bob Cerv]. They can hit; they can run; they can throw...
...British Air Force, and Chancellor of Cambridge University, praised President Conant yesterday. Speaking at a Pilgrim luncheon in London, Tedder lauded Conant for having spoken "so wisely and frankly about the misuse of nationalism." In his speech, Conant rejected the treatment of atomic research as a matter of national pride...
Like eager soldiers at guard mount, Turkey and Greece last week stood at stiff attention, gleaming with spit & polish and full of self-conscious pride, to greet General Dwight Eisenhower. NATO's Supreme Commander had flown over on a quick trip from France especially to welcome Nations No. 13 & 14 into the European Army...
...rest of Labor to join them in fighting Toryism, said Bevan. "But if we cannot go on together, we shall go on alone." Presumably neither Nye Bevan nor Clement Attlee wanted a divorce, for such a split might mean a Tory government for a long time to come. But pride and strong wills were at issue. Even if there was a compromise, the intraparty cold war was sure to rage...