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Word: prided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before supersophisticated writers start carping about Mr. Nixon's state dinner in Los Angeles honoring the astronauts, may a humble and grateful citizen say, "Thank you, Mr. President." Thank you for your boyish pride, your genuine affection for three gallant men, and most of all thank you for sharing it with me. I had a wonderful time. Where else could you see the Ambassador of Sweden, Rudy Vallee and an astronaut sit down together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 29, 1969 | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...festival that unfolded without violence in an Aquarian instant of communion and discovery (see TIME ESSAY). The ghettos stayed quiet, the number of significant uprisings well below that of the last four long hot summers. Last week, much of Negro America turned its eyes to a token of black pride, the newly crowned Miss Black America, a title won by New York's Gloria Smith from among 16 black beauties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CULTIVATING THE AMERICAN GARDEN | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...many of their problems on the "unprecedented" growth in the tremendous demand for telephone service in the past 20 months. In an effort to over come deficiences, New York Telephone last month began bringing in an emergency force of 1,500 workmen from other parts of the U.S. "Our pride has been hurt," said William Sharwell, the company's vice president for operations. "We won't rest easy until service is good everywhere for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utilities: The Customers Talk Back | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Hurt Pride. Computer experts also joined in the attack, charging that the system had failed to provide the service necessary to accommodate their industry's astonishing growth. Lewis Clapp, president of Dial-Data Inc., of Newton, Mass., predicted "national telephone blackouts" by 1972 unless the telephone companies take faster action to install the lines needed for transmission of a growing deluge of computerized data. Though his fears may be valid, Clapp's criticism is a bit un fair. The computer time-sharing industry has expanded much faster than even computer experts predicted, and it is still growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utilities: The Customers Talk Back | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Commission. From this soft center the mob's web spreads to many thousands of allies and vassals representing most ethnic groups. "We got Jews, we got Polacks, we got Greeks, we got all kinds," Jackie Cerone, a member of the Chicago gang, once observed with both accuracy and pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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