Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife and daugher of Cornelius Melody, the dispossessed Irish nobleman who finds himself washed ashore in America with only his pride, are simple folk whose love is such a habit it becomes part of them. For Nora Melody, superbly played by Helen Hayes, her husband is the same grand man who plucked her from amongst the pigs and made her his wife. Her love reaches past respect, for in Melody's rowdy pretense there is little to respect. She is as blind to his failure as she is to any threat to her love...
What is the beef? Does it hurt our pride to have the hypocritical Commies tell us the truth about our shortcomings...
...heavy blanket of scorn heaped on Air Force Academy newcomers takes a big slice of resignations and washouts every year (22% v. West Point's 30%, Annapolis' 22.5%). But for those who remain, the rigid life shapes strong, intelligent, self-disciplined men, ready to match their pride with that of the Point and the Naval Academy. The new plant will contribute to that pride. Said one cadet last week, as he gazed at the Air Force Academy's permanent home: "All the time we were in the barracks at Lowry, I felt more like an airman than...
...third and decisive heat at DuQuoin (Ill.) State Fair, a filly named Emily's Pride stepped out swiftly and surely at the touch of 64-year-old Driver Flick Nipe, trotted the mile in the race-record time of 1:59.8 to win the 33rd Hambletonian and $62,750 of the $106,719 prize money...
...best of the new magicians of concrete is Mexico's Felix Candela, 48, whose soaring shell structures are the pride of Mexico City, useful for everything from churches to bandstands. A Spanish-born architect who was once Spain's ski champion, Candela fought with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland...