Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pride was hurt, but Golfis lived in peace with his neighbor until last month, when a vein of water was discovered under their land. In Greece's dry, sun-parched hills, where water is as precious as life, it was a great event; Psofios announced he would sink a well. Old Golfis, who was too poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided...
...coffee market and by bluntly suggesting some undiplomatic ways to force prices down aga (e.g., "scrutinizing" loan to coffee countries, encouraging production in other countries, policing the coffee trade, etc.), Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette and his colleagues had managed to wound the good neighbors' sensitive pride and threaten their pocketbooks as well...
...Worth Nothing?" In the end, outcast and betrayed, Jeremiah sends his last unheeded cry to the world: "I had longed to do justice in the world, and what was worthy of praise. Even if my longing was born in vanity and nursed in pride, is that longing to be wholly damned? . . . And in my crime and vainglory of self is there no worth lost? Oh, was I worth nothing, and my agony...
...important thing to N.S.A. and to their friends is that, in the past year, all seven have decided they would like to be citizens of this country, and with apparent pride they show their first citizenship papers to visitors...
...fathers and grandfathers and uncles, the receiving of a degree by an undergraduate is an excuse for at least quiet pride. For mothers and grandmothers, it is close to a traumatic event. But for the immediate objects of all this adulation, it is something else. It is an ending of sorts, because the problems of eating and sleeping will no longer be minimized by college existence. It is a beginning of sorts, because many of us have had just about enough studying, and will be content to try working for a change. For all seniors it is a chance...