Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rely on largesse much longer. With world population in the past five years growing twice as fast, at 2% a year, as food output, man's struggle against hunger has reached a historic turning point. It has already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week told U.S. embassies...
...Service agent paddling in their wake. They had picnics along the Potomac, flew up to New York to see the World's Fair and a Broadway show. They zipped around Washington in Luci's green Sting Ray convertible for a while, but this nettled Pat's pride; he borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor. The reason for the recognition lapse was simply that...
...American on the jury of the international Tchaikovsky Vocal Competition in Moscow, I share the feeling of pride that TIME demonstrated in its story [July 8] on Winner Jane Marsh, who displayed vocal beauty, technical skill and flawless musicianship...
...characteristic. The generation that is in command has little taste for mock heroics and even less for overstatement. Its eyes are relatively clear, if at times somewhat troubled. Its productive record is vast and its potential still enormous. While at times it may seem hesitant and confused, it has pride in its competence, intelligence and tenacity, and staunch confidence in the future...
...wait with trepidation and pride until Africans break the bonds of tyranny," Allard Lowenstein commented last week in reaction to the disappointing decision handed down by the International Court of the Hague over apartheid in Southwest Africa...