Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this affluent summer of discontent, it was a matter of relief and pride to Americans of all stripes that U.S. space scientists had at last scored a spectacular success with a space shot and had delivered history's first closeup pictures of the moon's surface (see SCIENCE). BULL'S-EYE! cheered the headlines, and for the moment at least, most of the argument about whether the moon program is worth its cost was forgotten while the nation joined in the cheering. "This is a great day for science and a great day for the U.S.," exulted...
...radioactive fallout of fear, intolerance and ignorance at San Francisco has produced a political mutation that, like the proverbial mule, has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity...
...walls surround the ghetto except the invisible ones that can be the hardest of all to surmount. Harlem's Negroes have withdrawn behind the invisible walls, almost out of necessity, into a world of their own, complete with its own pride, its own lingo, and even its own time. In Harlem, C.P.T. means "Colored People's Time," and it runs one full hour behind white people's time...
Vatican Objections. In the deft sweep of his lines and the religious themes that dominate his work, Manzù is unmistakably an heir of Renaissance tradition. Yet his sculpture has not always pleased a church that takes pride in the Michelangelo who painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother...
...more than three months, spry, quixotic P. G. Winnett, 83, chairman and co-founder of the West Coast's Bullock's department stores, fought alone to rally stockholders against a merger with Federated Department Stores, the nation's biggest chain. Appealing to local pride, he warned that the "Eastern octopus" would crush Bullock's individuality. Bullock's other directors, led by Winnett's son-in-law, President Walter W. Candy Jr., 58, argued that a merger with Federated (60 stores, including Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Miami's Burdine...