Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change consists of a quickening of national pride, a new solidity of national spirit, a sense of autonomy and freedom. Ever since the Communist siege of Pleiku in February 1965 galvanized the U.S. into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession...
...city's better than your city. In the Middle Ages, they proved it by erecting the biggest cathedral, in the Renaissance, by commissioning the grandest city hall, in the 19th century, by bolting together the most cavernous railroad station. In the 20th century, cities began putting their pride in the sky and, until lately at least, the sky scraper sufficed as the symbol. Now the high-rise office has an even skinnier cousin, the cloud-busting television tower-generally equipped with a slowly rotating restaurant...
...unusually blunt, if characteristically unhelpful. U.S. intervention in Viet Nam, he said, had rekindled war in Southeast Asia, and threatened world war. What America should do is withdraw from the battlefield now with honor, "an act of renouncing," he said, that would not "injure [the U.S.'s] pride, interfere with its ideals, or prejudice its interests." After all, France did the same thing in Algeria, he pointed out -but failed to mention that the Algerian war involved no alien aggression like Hanoi's. The U.S. would be all the more advised to quit Viet Nam, he argued, because...
Uruguayans pride themselves on having the purest democracy in the Western Hemisphere. They got it 14 years ago, when the nation abolished its one-man presidency and set up a Swiss-style nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...
...preschool training is great for rich kids in nursery school and for poor kids in the Government's Head Start program, why shouldn't every parent get busy and give his child a head start at home? That reasoning, stimulated by parental pride and fear, has led to a barrage of books and packages that offer to help Mommy teach Baby how to read, add numbers and raise his IQ, even while he is sitting on the potty...