Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs, the people axe fed up with the Socialists, and by all signs, the Socialists are fed up with governing. Only tenacity and pride keep them in office. Their revolution is over and so is the thrill of adventure that went with it. In February the Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization...
...Commander in Chief. "As of tomorrow, 21 March, 1951," he wrote the President, "the strength of our armed forces will be exactly double what it was on 25 June, 1950. This has been accomplished less than nine months after the Communist aggression against the Republic of Korea." Then, with pride, he added: "For your information, the strength we have already attained . . . was not attained in World War II until more than twenty-one months after our build-up started...
...teaches religion, if he attempts to be definite, if he admonishes and exhorts, if he really loves God and his neighbor fearlessly, he will be despised and rejected . . . Scandals will be spread about him and the witchlike malice of the self-righteous will fall on him. The pride of the semi-educated . . . will flourish in village sloth. 'Many country people think there is something in all this religion,' as [Anglican Layman] Samuel Gurney says, 'and they aren't going to have anything to do with...
...lightweight, .30-cal. T25 rifle is a "new tool" which certainly merits the Army's pride [TIME, Feb. 26]. I trust the Army is saving a few buttons to burst when it finds the supermen to fire the T25 at 750 rounds a minute using a 20-round clip...
Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...