Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida and speeches in New York, West Germany's Socialist candidate for Chancellor supported U.S. policies in Viet Nam-and urged the U.S. to promote German reunification. "It was as inevitable as the sunrise that the German people would seek their national identity. No people can live without pride," he cried, well aware that reunification is a major issue of the coming campaign...
...rifle-a one-in-a-million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto a sharpened bamboo stake-injuring his leatherneck pride more than his derri...
Baltimore's pride is the team fielded by the Mt. Washington Club-an organization of old braves, some of whom have been out of college for ten years or more. The coach is a torts lawyer, the star attack man a 33-year-old insurance broker; there are also two stockbrokers on the squad. The club pays no salaries, awards no letters, has never even got around to hanging the framed team photographs in its red brick clubhouse five miles from downtown Baltimore. Practice scrimmages are studiedly informal: the losers buy the winners beer. "We just have a good...
...somewhat less than welcome in many parts of Europe these days, chiefly because research-minded U.S. companies are proving such formidable competition that they are eating away at the markets of many European firms. Last week, nonetheless, Europe's biggest industrial company put talented performance before touchy national pride and tapped for its inner circle of top command an American whose career is built on research. The man: Monroe E. Spaght (pronounced spate), president and chief executive of Shell Oil Co., who was picked as a managing director of Shell's huge European parent, Royal Dutch/Shell...
...classic confrontation: potentate v. parvenu, defense v. offense. The Boston Celtics, National Basketball Association champions for six straight years, were the most successful team in the history of professional sport. The Philadelphia 76'ers did not even exist two years ago. The pride of the Celtics was Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.), the N.B.A.'s four-time Most Valuable Player, a brooding defensive genius who gobbles sleeping pills and vomits from tension before every game. The pillar of the 76'ers was Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain, a giant (7 ft. 1-1/16 in.) among giants...