Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goes the Farmer. Leo Hoegh's political problems are all bound up in the character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...some measure the functions of a prince and a governor, with salaries ranging up to $120,000 a year, the title rajpramukh was bestowed by the republic on seven of the most powerful princes (along with allowances ranging upward to $1,000,000) as a sop to their pride. But even that comes to an end with the realignment of states. As a mere governor, poking along on his privy purse ($520,000) and an annual salary of $13,000, the maharaja would be able to throw no more parties like this. All through the elaborate, ten-day ceremony that...
...letter [Sept. 17], Robert J. Beardmore says "I'd like to say that there isn't a marine in the Marine Corps who wears his uniform with any more pride than our airmen . . . Come now. Reader Beardmore, why didn't you sign your rank? Just plain "Robert J. Beardmore, U.S.A.F." won't do, you know. Surely you're not ashamed of being an officer. The clincher is the patronizing way you refer to "our airmen." An enlisted man would lave said "we airmen...
...influential to be prosecuted. This stings Prosecutor Berthier, and gradually he persuades himself that "justice" must be done. As the knowledge spreads that Berthier means to do his duty, he becomes a public hero. His girl's adoration lives in her eyes, and he knows the heady pride of a man who is honored for sticking to principle. Full of righteousness, he sets out in court to convict a man he knows to be innocent...
...should actually benefit from the plan. Dudley has long yearned for the status of a full fledged House. As the University is already committed to building a new commuters' center, the new building combined with a staff of tutors and instructors should give the Dragons stronger ties and more pride than they now have...