Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry for Annapolis they weren't terribly sorry. After all, officers are officers...
Back at West Point for the first visit in 14 years, former Superintendent Douglas MacArthur, in well-tailored mufti, glowed with fatherly pride as young Arthur was presented with a cadet's dress cap. After the ceremony, they watched a sadly depleted Army team lose its first game of the season to Villanova...
...flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
...mention was made of the salary . . . While it is true that I am not preaching for money, there are certain things that need be taken into account. I may say with pardonable pride that I am a Sanhedrin man-the only one in the ministry today...
...real service to your university. Fight and win rationalism in athletic policies. Demand schedules capable of producing wins--and if your pride suffers from the weekly battles with minute colleges, really wise up and get your football on an intramural basis--drop it intercollegiately. Sure, that's a big step. But Harvard is a big school...