Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What boiled over in Dallas was its newspapers, whose journalistic pride was outraged. The Morning News salved itself with a quote from Mayor Wallace Savage: "If such conditions existed here . . . the Dallas News is fearless and independent enough to have printed [the facts]." The Times-Herald quoted Savage too: "I know that if ... such conditions [were known] ... an independent and fearless newspaper such as the Times-Herald would have published [them...
Mines & Medicine. Celebrating its 100th anniversary last week, the University of Utah could forget those of Founder Young's grandiose prophecies that had not been fulfilled, take pride in its present achievements. With 10,000 students, a faculty of 500, 151 buildings dotting a 450-acre campus, it boasts first-rate schools of liberal arts, engineering, mines and medicine. Although 76% of the student body and almost 50% of the faculty are of Mormon faith, it draws students from every state and 33 foreign countries, is nondenominational in its administration...
...trustees hope that before this fund runs out the 20 percent amusement tax will be repealed. When this happns the cost of tickets will remain the same but the orchestra will benefit. Meanwhile the trustees pride themselves on never having to tamper with a program with an eye to the gate. Symphony Hall is always full. And at a time when orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony have folded, the Boston Symphony carries on, and manages to present three expensive summer features on top of its heavy winter schedule...
When the authorities at Oklahoma City's 20-acre Lincoln Park Zoo got the newest addition to their menagerie installed in public view two weeks ago, they experienced a pardonable glow of' civic pride. The newcomer was a full-grown leopard, brought straight from the jungles of India and probably one of the toughest tomcats ever to wind up in stir...
...citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like sin of pride or of grave error or of complete misunderstanding of God's laws...