Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against that frame of mind that Houston's citizens were up in arms last week. For Houston (pop. 901,922), with its booming pace and blooming wealth, has a blemish on its shiny pride: in 1957 it had the highest per capita murder rate in the whole country-about 15 per 100,000, or a total of 136 for the year.* What makes Houston so special? Says one cop simply: "Houston is a city of murder without motive...
...France, where Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba has long been charged with giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, Allard's report offered Premier Félix Gaillard an excellent opportunity to play upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...
...their business problems. Women colleagues on other campuses did not always appreciate White's efforts. "They think I'm trying to hem women in," he once complained. "I'm trying to liberate them. I won't be satisfied until I hear a woman say with pride, 'I'm a housewife...
...businessmen who pride themselves on inside dope, Wall Streeters were caught flat-footed last week. The Federal Reserve Board announced what no one on the street had expected: a cut in margin requirements (money that must be put up to buy stock on credit) from 70% to 50%. For a few heady hours next day, the market marched uphill. But before day's end it had marched right down again. It closed the week at 444.12 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 5.44 points, mostly on gains made before the announcement...
...this his wife Hannah knows, as well as the whittlers down on the square. Now she lives for two things: to raise her son Theron nobly, while deepening his love for her, and to nourish the son's respect for his errant father as a matter of pride and principle...