Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO Naval Chief. Churchill, when still in opposition to the Labor government, had worked up British pride against an American as supreme naval commander for NATO. In his last session with Truman, the Former Naval Person hammered out a compromise: the U.S. will have NATO's top naval post after all (to go to the Atlantic Fleet's chief, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick), but the British Admiralty will have independent command of all waters within the 100-fathom line around the United Kingdom. This would keep...
...defense sector of the budget, noted the President with pride, is nearly a billion dollars below non-defense expenditures in the current budget. But he wants, among other things, $1.4 billion for the farm support program (up 100% over 1951); $2.6 billion for Federal welfare and health programs; $624 million for federal aid to education; $4.1 billion for veterans' benefits (set by law and beyond presidential control); and $303 million to help the Bureau of Internal Revenue hire 7,000 new tax collectors...
...world, he took the words "honor" and "country" seriously. He would literally blanch at the suggestion that all Frenchmen might not instantly rush to the defense of their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism...
...sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote soon afterward: "My pride is greater than my sorrow. You should send me compliments, not condolences...
...Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said he, with matter-of-fact pride: "Paulistas don't stop for anything." High in his 27-story skyscraper, a businessman explained judiciously: "We are Brazil. Without us, what would there...