Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Felt Like Crying." Thus the years passed with a rare and wonderful fruitfulness. Throughout, old John D. Rockefeller looked out upon his son from his retirement with pride. "I just felt like crying like a baby," said old John D., aged 86, when his son departed after one visit. And once J.D.R. Jr. wired word of a coming visit to his ailing father, aged 96: AM NOT COMING BECAUSE I THINK YOU NEED ME BUT BECAUSE I KNOW I NEED YOU. The next year, aged 97, the old titan died...
...summer long National League ball fans were popping with pride and suspense. The race for the pennant was wide open. Cincinnati had the power to prop up its weak pitching; Milwaukee had just enough of everything to stay in front; the tired old champs from Brooklyn were still hanging on. Almost any game was worth watching; all was well with the world. New York was walking off with the American League pennant, and the man in the stands shouted his raucous, stylized defiance: "There are only two major leagues, the Yankees and us. And the Yanks...
Professional Touch. In Storrs, Conn., after hunting a golf ball in a poison-ivy patch and getting a severe case of poisoning on both arms, Dr. Harriet Creighton swallowed her pride, presided as scheduled over the golden jubilee meeting of the Botanical Society of America...
Economic troubles aside, Ecuadorians can take pride in their nation's recent history. The country was long notorious for political inflammability, but last week Ponce became the third President in a row to be constitutionally inaugurated. And for a Conservative to be able to take office in Ecuador with only a 29% mandate was itself a milestone of political progress and maturity...
Toynbee makes the point that historians share with Christians the sin of selfcenteredness-a result of spiritual pride. He considers it an intellectual as well as a moral error, "because no living creature has a right to act as if it were the center of the Universe...