Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tries (missing on the second by two votes) to unseat plodding Republican Undertaker William Celentano as mayor of heavily Italian, heavily industrial New Haven, Conn. (pop. 167,700). It has taken aggressive ex-Reporter Lee, 41, only 3½ years to give his cramped old birthplace (founded 1638) new pride in something more than its elm trees, Yankee traditions and Yale University. Firmly scuttling nostalgia ("Our greatness lies in the future"), Lee has put New Haven foremost among New England cities in striking at the illnesses that plague all U.S. municipalities: the exodus to the suburbs, slum growth, downtown decline...
...Pilgrims' pride was not wholly fulfilled. Before Mayflower II would dock permanently near the site of-Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from...
...Indians, having seen this sort of pride-punctured squabbling before, turned with a sigh toward the quietude of their own homes...
...from cartels, such as Britain's Reuters and France's Agence Havas; subsidized or directly influenced by their governments, they divided the world into noncompetitive preserves. After the U.P.' challenged the cartels, the A.P. eventually followed suit. Testy Titan Scripps thus had some reason for his pride when he said: "I regard my life's greatest service to the people of this country to be the creation of the United Press...
...shout courage back at him. His undeviating training code: if I don't almost kill you in this process, an enemy will some day make you "dead, dead, dead!" The fragile axis of the plot, a moral weakling from a Corps-dedicated family, naturally turns eventually into the pride of his platoon. Sergeant Webb surprises in the end. Just when he might be expected, for the good of the Marines, to mow down his whole motley lot of boots with a Tommy gun, he sends them on, all alive...