Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vyacheslav Molotov is that of having guessed right about Lenin in 1917. It is a point that Molotov, in his 30 years of steely self-discipline in the service of the egocentric Stalin, seldom boasted about. Last week 67-year-old Molotov gave rein to his long-suppressed Bolshevik pride in an article that took up two-thirds of a page in Pravda...
Having met at the Olympic games in Australia and married despite mountains of red tape in Red-ruled Czechoslovakia, Champion Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, the pride of Boston, and his bride, Champion Discus Thrower Olga Filcotova, 24, the pride of Prague, sailed happily into New York harbor, down to "our last 35?." Exclaiming on the beauties of Fifth Avenue's shop windows, Olga was quickly reassured by her mother-in-law: "This is nothing. Wait until you see Boston, the seat of all culture...
Believing that Harvard could achieve unity in social life as well as in athletic endeavor, Major Henry L. Higginson, donor of Soldier's Field, granted a $150,000 financial bedrock for a building where "pride of wealth, pride of poverty, and pride of class would find no place." Choosing a site proved the initial trial to Harvard democracy; Gold Coasters pressured for a Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union...
...still undecided whether he would go to troubled Jordan, troublemaking Egypt or fanatic-ridden Syria. A policy had been laid down in advance that he would visit only countries that invited him, and the rulers of Egypt and Syria were still wavering between two unpleasant alternatives: to swallow pride and invite Richards, or pass up the big chance to get a badly needed slice of that $200 million...
...prairie lawyer, John Diefenbaker, 62, of Prince Albert, Sask., who moved up to the Tory party leadership only four months ago. If Diefenbaker has trouble nicking the Liberals on straight parliamentary issues, he will face a powerful temptation to cash in on Canada's surging sense of national pride, campaign emotionally against foreign, i.e., U.S., influence in Canadian industry and culture...