Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrary, like many Italians, I saw idiosyncrasies and stupidities, blood, tears and frustrations imposed upon the Italian people by the Fascist dictator and his cronies. After the war, when the horrors of the Fascist regime came more apparently to the surface, I felt ashamed, bitter and miserable. The pride in being an Italian stayed with me because there were men like De Gasperi, Pope Pius and Pope John, who reminded me that there is a time when a country can go mad, and a time when it can reach the highest degree of greatness...
...action, not a verbose politician," burbled Moise Tshombe. Fairly bursting with pride, Tshombe recalled that when he became Premier last July, "nothing was working and three-fourths of the country was under rebel control." Today, he beamed, "order has returned, and now the elections are terminated. Now let us all together, every Congolese, roll up our sleeves and make the great Congo into a country of happiness and prosperity...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
...process of exercising variously"-but afraid to compete. He despises uniformity but craves membership in the Club. He rebels against mediocrity but tells himself he is "too mediocre to think of beauty." His blood boils with desire, "very strong desire that knocks about everything, zigzagging, starved, steeped in pride and filth," but he follows his impulses only in dreams. In the end, says Quinte, "one finds oneself with all those others, those terrible others, who resemble each other and whom I resemble, and who also resemble infinite tatters...
...Major McAllister's death: the young men who have never known war in person badly need a guide to the real meaning of fidelity, pride and heroism. Major McAllister was such a guide...