Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guide, explained to Soviet Ambassador Zarubin, who was there with 30 fellow diplomats for the 180th anniversary celebration of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. "This is a shrine to the principles of freedom," she went on, "and for us Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest joy and the greatest pride lies in the knowledge that this shrine which is ours is not ours only, but for freedom-loving peoples all over the world. And they come here from all over the world, as you, to sit in this building in reverence and homage...
...Fire. Once inside, however, there were 52 more steps to be negotiated. To spare the old man's pride and health together, the city fathers of Aachen had herded the 300 invited guests into the auditorium ahead of Sir Winston, then, discreetly sealing'the staircase from prying eyes, had the great guest carried up by four city firemen...
...International Business Machines Corp., taking over from his 82-year-old father, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., who remains as board chairman. Young Tom Watson, "Mr. THINK Jr." (TIME, March 28,1955), will continue as IBM president. A supersalesman who is fond of saying that he takes "real pride in being a great man's son." Tom Jr. has been with IBM since he graduated from Brown University in 1937. As chief executive officer, Tom Jr. will officially become top boss, although unofficially he has been running IBM since taking over as president...
...General Assembly resolution made Somaliland a U.N. trusteeshin under Italy's care, setting 1960 as the date when it would become a free Somalia. As a matter of national pride, the Italians took seriously the job of sprucing up Somaliland. They repaired the war damage, started port developments and irrigation programs, built new hospitals and dispensaries, and tripled the number of native schools (though only one Somali in 100 can read and write). Somali tribesmen, mindful of their hatred of the Mussolini colonial era, at first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more...
Transformation. The pull of Bootstrap has transformed Puerto Rican life; the dejection of the past is lost in new pride. A case in point is Salinas, on the south coast, once a drowsy and impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers, three-fourths of them women who had never worked before, and began to sprinkle a payroll of $1,250,000 a year over the town. As almost the first result, a jewelry store opened to sell the gold watches Puerto Ricans admire. A market soon developed for used cars, furniture...