Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with him, and Ruby spends hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers to make a noose, and poking his finger in an electric light socket. Ruby's onetime pride and joy, the tawdry Carousel Club, has been sold, and Mrs. Grant says the family is nearly broke. Ruby's attorney, Phil Burleson, last week filed a 6,341-page appeal and transcript of Ruby's trial in hopes that the state Court of Criminal Appeals would grant...
Better than command, Howard liked the excitement of the story hunt, and it led him all over the globe. He took a newsman's wry pride in having scooped the world on the signing of the World War I armistice, which he happened to report four days before it actually took place. Having seen what was apparently a government dispatch and having relied on an unimpeachable source-Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commanding U.S. naval forces in France-Howard never regretted his premature dispatch: "No real reporter could have or would have done otherwise...
...accents and nasal intonations of the singers, it is the background music provided by the sidemen on twangy electric guitars. They are a small, seasoned corps whose musical prowess is more heart than art. Few, lest it cramp their style, have had formal training. In fact, they tend to pride themselves on their inability to read music, "and the few who can," says RCA Victor Executive Steve Sholes, "don't let it interfere with their performance...
...National Pride. Above all, Japan itself is still ambivalent about playing a strong international role. By and large, the Japanese still dread the prospect of rearmament, which is the only means by which their great economic power can express itself as a political power. But amid unprecedented prosperity and new national pride, the Japanese are gradually beginning to understand the responsibilities that go with leadership. And they are learning that all great powers must somehow create an atmosphere in which they will be accepted as leaders...
...Edwardian. Nobody was more astonished than the U.S. designers (who pride themselves on catering to the young) when the Chelsea girls invaded Manhattan in force this fall and bowled over nearly every buyer in sight. Suddenly Cincinnati looked more like Chelsea. So did Cambridge, Mass., and Carmel, Calif...