Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shining exception to the rule that family-owned companies no longer achieve great growth is S. C. Johnson & Son, the household-wax titan from Racine, Wis. In an industry where Pride is a product and Pledge outsells competing furniture polishes 2 to 1, Johnson has cleaned up millions. Yet it has never had to sell a share to the public, never made an acquisition in its progress to the top floor of the $200 million-a-year wax and polish business...
...Goldwater is nominated," said the Chicago Sun-Times, "we predict that he will not carry more than two states-not necessarily Maine and Vermont." The Washington Star published a declaration of its own pride at having opposed well before California "a candidate so manifestly unsuited to the high and difficult office he seeks." Said the Nashville Tennessean: "What little identification with the 20th century the Republican Party has been able to achieve was shattered by the galloping hooves of Senator Goldwater's horse back program." Noting his victory in California, the New York Herald Tribune said: "We didn...
...spoke with neither resignation nor despair. But there was pride in a long lifetime of accomplishment, and his voice rang with the dauntless curiosity of an old man facing the diminishing future. "This is my final word," said William Maxwell Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, at his 85th birthday party (TIME, June 5). It was, indeed, his valedictory. Last week at Cherkley, his gloomy Victorian estate in Surrey, the Beaver's heart, which had endured so long despite bouts with asthma, sciatica and gout, finally failed...
...betting that he can get the money unfrozen later or turn a profit by using the funds inside the country. He has the right connections for it. Occasionally, governments buy and sell their own currencies through Deak, creating an artificial demand that boosts the exchange rate and balms national pride...
...look like Santa Claus-more like the man who shot him. Beneath a nobly domed forehead, pale eyes glared out from a meanly featured face. This repellent countenance would on rare occasions be relieved by an unpleasant smile. Yet for all his unprepossessing appearance, he had the pride of Lucifer himself. He insisted on his aristocratic descent...