Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention that the "vital difference" between Dienbienphu and Quemoy is that "United States prestige is directly at stake." With pride, I now march forward for God, country, and prestige...
...Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown by 3 to 1 (TIME, Aug. 25). Facing an increasingly tough opponent in Republican Nelson Rockefeller, Harriman and De Sapio decided to sacrifice pride for 50,000 key Harlem votes in Powell's pocket...
...contrast to his despised contemporaries, Wolfe was a strange figure. Tall, thin, and quite awkward, he rarely spoke in class, and when he did it was with a shy stammer. Although his general lack of finesse was often embarrassing, Wolfe professed pride in the marked difference between himself and his classmates. He called himself "a raw Tar Heel ... with native simplicity...
...have "borrowed" some of his ideas, though y Gasset doesn't acknowledge any influence. "I'm very widely read in Spain," he notes, a quizzical smile accompanying the revelation. This suggestion that many sociologists have swiped his ideas is one of his favorite themes. But he takes an obvious pride in the esteem reflected in such judicious intellectual thievery. Sorokin notes with pride that he was made the most revered and respected sociologist at the recent Congress of the International Institute of Sociology...
...daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult with a challenge, only to stumble blankly home, all the posturing and pride crushed out of him, to kill that last emblem of his dream, his blooded mare. As confirmed a dream addict as any tosspot or down-and-outer in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody stands apart from them in having a family around him-a lowborn...