Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poles do not compare the new Sejm to a Western parliament, for there is no organized parliamentary opposition. The most they hope for-and it is a hope which already gives a certain pride to the faces of the Sejm Deputies-is that it will become a place in which some men may raise their voices...
...other offering, an Italian film, Three Forbidden Tales, tells the usual Poignant stories of rape, unrequited and misdirected love, shattered pride, sex, and death in fairly nauseating fashion...
...economizing Earl of Harewood, 34, eleventh in succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...
With that decision, Henriette and her friends change from uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis...
...Hall is the pride of many of the members, particularly because it is the home of one of the largest pipe organs in New England, implanted high on the side wall. It's not used very much or for anything in particular, but it's there to talk about...