Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saudi Arabia had threatened to bar the Aqaba Gulf to unwanted ships. Israel, which had celebrated the Kern Hills' first voyage with crowing triumph, this time censored news of its arrival, apparently concluding that the safest way to keep the Gulf open was to avoid stirring up Arab pride...
Apologies & Effigies. Hurt and shaken, Barbara Smith managed to swallow her pride. "The ultimate success of integration at the university," she said, "is much more important than my appearance in the opera." With that Barbara kept mum -and university officials were ordered to do the same. But last week a series of events proved that integration had achieved a far greater measure of success than Barbara-or anyone else-had realized. Seldom had the university been the center of such a storm of indignation...
...Vietnamized, and commanded them to take new names. South Viet Nam's Chinese, one of Southeast Asia's most outspokenly anti-Communist communities, reacted promptly. Some Chinese businessmen simply took in a Vietnamese partner as a cover, stayed right on in business. But many others, partly from pride, partly because they thought Diem was bluffing, decided to hold...
Puny Shield. At first blush this wave of war pride might be expected to help Premier Nobusuke Kishi's efforts to expand Japan's puny Self-Defense Forces (150,000 soldiers, 20,000 sailors, 15,000 airmen). But despite the fact that members of the Self-Defense Forces can quit the service almost any time, volunteers are few, and in March the government ruefully revealed that of 8,200 recruits accepted in 1957, only 60% had bothered to show up at a basic-training center. Clearly what is reviving in Japan is not so much militarism as simple...
...world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become the conservative, north-of-the-border counterpart of the Manchester Guardian, Britain's most prestigious provincial daily, while also reaching added circulation by appealing to the staunch home-country pride of Scots the world over. At home Thomson intends to invade the more thickly populated Scottish west coast and challenge the Scotsman's ancient adversary, the Glasgow Herald (circ. 76,379), which still runs ads on Page...