Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large and generous spirit prevailed. The Harvard enthusiasm did not degenerate into exclusive pride or self-admiration...
...revolt of Oct. 23, mostly young Communists, were not thinking in terms of Lenin, but of the Hungarian patriots who revolted against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848. The street and rooftop fighters, who took over the struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by Utopian ideals of a democratic workers' state...
...worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates to a 7-6 upset over Notre Dame's Paul Hornung...
...village chief. He goes from faded canvas pants to the garish socks, yellow shoes, felt hat and necktie that for him are the power symbols of the ruling señores. Juanito kills his first man from passion, his second for self-preservation, his third and fourth from pride. Yet when a lethargic justice at last executes him, it is for the wrong reason...
...Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget the things that once we never questioned...