Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot's 1935 verse play in a British internment camp in 1940. On his release he went to Eliot and got the poet's skeptical permission to film it. It proved to be a ten-year job to bring the drama of Thomas à Becket's pride and inner conflict to the screen...
...federation, once upon a time a source of public pride to "liberal" Methodists-as if it were a sort of vanguard of tomorrow's Christianity-has now become a subject of denominational embarrassment. It is a subject sure to be waiting on the doorstep when U.S. Methodism holds its General Conference next spring...
...Coast League has long suffered from a combination of geography and pride. Such cities as San Francisco and Los Angeles are big league towns by population standards, but they have scant chance of getting a major league franchise until such time as the majors are willing to ship their valuable athletes around by plane from game to game. Meanwhile, as Western fans see it, the Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry...
...Spree. The masters of Red China, whose sins are the vaster ones of aggression, wholesale blood purges and stifling of thought, take pride in the fact, attested by many observers, that under them the ancient oriental custom of "squeeze" is largely abolished and corruption has disappeared. Last week, however, Peking's People's Daily reported the short, gay life of one Chen Chu-hung...
...wife he had last seen 50 years before. In the cool, brick-floored upstairs hall of the Bogota home for the aged where she lived, they tearfully embraced. Then, white-bearded Old Soldier Candido Licht looked at her, his son,-his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, and spoke with pride and emotion: "I left a seed, and I find an orchard...