Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same way." Ky, at least, is well aware of the prickly sensitivity of South Vietnamese pride, and indeed shares some of it. "For better or worse," Ky often insists, "it is up to me and others like me to create a new society in South Viet Nam. You cannot do it for us. We must do it ourselves...
...their blood, the two researchers report in the Journal of the A.M.A., scored significantly higher than the rest in such qualities as drive (the energy put into daily activities), leadership (the tendency to lead others, to manipulate people rather than things), and achievement (actual accomplishment, plus the degree of pride with which it was reported) -all personality traits, as dis tinct from IQ ratings...
Others applaud the new programs as good, if properly handled. Philadelphia County Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout insists that "good English has no color connotation at all-pride in bad language is foolish." Psychologist Kenneth Clark sees "a great potential" if instruction is presented "in a context of dignity," not condescension-"exactly as French or Russian might be." He considers speech differences "one of the main, if superficial, racial and class irritants," but since "prejudice is made up of such little things, if one or two or three can be taken away, eventually the whole superstructure will fall...
When U.S. cities thought about parks in the past, they thought big, tended to put all their greenery in one huge garden. New York, for instance, takes tremendous pride in the fact that Central Park is larger than Monaco. But many city planners, led by Landscape Architect Robert Zion, have argued for years that what cities really need are small parks in midtown where pedestrians can escape from the madding crowd...
Rufus Clement, 65, Atlanta University. A Negro historian with a Ph.D. from Northwestern who has headed his school for 29 years, Clement takes pride in his skill in "race and human relations, first, and foreign relations, particularly African, second." He is an adviser to the State Department on African affairs, a member of the National Commission on Accrediting, board member of the American Association for the United Nations. He flies so much that he has Pan Am's schedules almost memorized...