Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timeless Longing. Kilmuir spoke of the hard-fought past that had led to the "free legal and political systems which are the heritage and pride not only of our two nations but of the Western world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
...quarrel between the two over what should be done with their letters and over how much of them ought to be published. The act moves on to a most affecting conclusion, as we see the pathetic decline and hard days of Mrs. Campbell, who finally has to overcome her pride and write to Shaw for assistance...
...good -except the manufacturer and seller of cigarettes. I dare say that every cigarette smoker would gladly give up the habit if he thought that he would not miss smoking and be unhappy about it. The fact is. as in my own case, a sense of pride comes with the fact that I possessed guts and gumption enough to give up the habit...
Loser for the League. First and last, "Fighting Jimmy" Cox was a newspaperman. At 28, he was already an influential publisher who took pride in the fact that his Dayton Daily News had racked up more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
When all is said and done, Britain's achievement in 1940 was one of character. Fleming shows his own special character in his assessment of this, resorts neither to Freud nor to any mythological flimflam, but to an editorial in the London Times. It was neither pride nor preoccupation with a job to do that gave the British their strength, says Fleming, citing the Times with approval; it was the universal understanding that all had lost something and would lose more, and that "now the days are all lived for their own sake...