Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time Britain as a nation did not divide, as it had done at Suez, between those who puffed out their chests in pride and those who lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
...world's most exciting assignments in art: to design the palaces, public buildings, courthouses, churches-even the yacht club-of a whole new city that will house 500,000 people. Now Brasilia, the great new inland national capital, is bustling toward completion, much to the pride and satisfaction of Architect Oscar Niemeyer...
...condemn you, who have made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to reason, you have for gotten how to feel...
Dwight Eisenhower's first Canadian visit in five years drew few such baldly emotional responses from Ottawans, who take a certain capital dwellers' pride in public impassivity before distinguished guests. But as the three days of speechmaking, banqueting and wreath laying wore on, one thing became clear: they liked Ike. Canadians esteem forthrightness. And the rankling, remediable grievances between good neighbors Ike discussed with a reasonableness and a courage unmistakable to his hosts (see HEMISPHERE). With his frankness, the President opened a new corridor of cordiality in U.S. relations with its next-door neighbor to the north...
...quickly briefed him sotto voce on the case and the State Department's protests to the Communists. The major was clearly relieved that he and his men had not been forgotten, and Topping had his exclusive story-one that both the A.P. and his countrymen could view with pride...