Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President Nixon flew to Manila last week for the tenth anniversary of Philippine independence (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) bearing a document that bolstered Filipino national pride more than all the speeches, parades and fireworks of the young nation's U.S. style Fourth of July. The document: a U.S. agreement to "transfer and turn over to the Philippines" full and unqualified title to ownership of "all land areas used either in the past or presently as military bases" by the U.S. in the Philippines...
...rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through all the excitement, eleven poker-faced Russians took in the matches and tried some volleying of their...
Henry V, according to one authority, has not been produced professionally on the American stage for thirty years. This statistic, if true, merely gives Cambridge and Harvard additional reason to take pride in the current production at Sanders. The Cambridge Drama Festival has truly made an auspicious debut...
...from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician in addition to the Mellons, and all have been studying Creole in preparation for their patients. Patients are expected to pay only what they can−token payments of chickens, fruits and vegetables "to satisfy their pride." The expected operating deficit: approximately $200,000 a year...
...students who live and work in Paris' Latin Quarter have long been famed for their individualism. They take pride in it; as a tourist attraction and source material for novels, they consider themselves one of France's national assets. Outsiders have long accepted their eccentricities and ascribed them simply to bohemianism. A young man or woman who lived in a fifth-floor garret, dressed like a Basque fisherman and sported an outrageous hairdo, was expected to be glamorously undernourished and suspected of harboring tuberculosis. But otherwise their elders were more worried about their morals than their health...