Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic City acceptance speech, the President justifiably pointed with pride to his domestic accomplishments. But "domestic" was the key word. Aside from a great many sweeping references to "peace," Lyndon generally avoided the hard facts of international life. It has been rare in recent years for a President, or a candidate for President, not to give prime importance to America's role in the world...
...around him are the signs of his country's prestige. The swift Caravelle jet carries the name of France through the skies, and the world's longest liner, the France, carries it across the seas. French military power, so often frustrated, can take at least symbolic pride in its minuscule atomic strike force. The nation's population, which had been shrinking before the war, has grown from 40 to 48 million, and the gross national product from $31 billion to $72 billion. Class feeling is being diminished by the embourgeoisement of the workers, more and more...
...unfortunate that you did not explore the opinions of those Catholic laymen who detest the false pride of men like Gushing and the Jesuits. These men are the Bing Crosby and Pat O'Brien type of priests, who use cliches and terribly bold words to express their supposed liberalism. The pseudo-progressive Jesuit colleges send forth a procession of professional security-conscious, noncreative graduates...
Only the U.S. seemed interested in helping him hang on. It gave him a few renovated B-26s to help him against the advancing Congolese rebels. Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams spent five days with Tshombe in Leopoldville, left only after the Premier agreed to swallow his pride and ask five selected African nations to send troops. Whether they will remains doubtful...
Lives Relived. History can never be a matter of scientific exactitude, argues Smith, and historians who take pride in their objectivity on the ground that they are writing at a time remote from the event are merely imposing their own system on the past. "Individuals in history achieve authenticity through their actions," writes Smith, "and historians cannot arbitrarily deprive these lives of their meaning by judgments imposed long after the event. That we should ever have accepted any convention which held the contrary is monstrous...