Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after "Emperor" MacArthur (as he was often called) was relieved of his command by President Truman, we heard that he said that all Japanese were "twelve-year-olds." I doubt that the general personally realized to what extent his words wounded the pride of the Japanese...
...poem. "The Keepsake," reprinted from my book The Breaking of the Day in your issue of April 9. I wish, however, you had printed it the way I wrote it. I took especial care over the last lines: "Could any man / So burdened not cringe with pride, possessor of / So shinning, so ineradicable a sorrow?" Would you agree that "ineradicable" (my word) does not carry the same meaning as its opposite, "eradicable" (your word)? Peter Davison
...treaty guaranteeing the rights of Greek residents in Turkey, ominously notified 480 Greeks, ranging from dentists to tailors, that their occupations were henceforth "illegal." Turkey also expelled 39 Greeks, among them a priest and a chorister of the Greek Orthodox Church. In a circuitous display of national pride, the Turkish communications minister announced plans to reroute a 20-mile section of the old "Ori ent Express," which presently passes through Greece on the railroad's Paris-Istanbul line. The new route will pass through Communist Bulgaria, the minister haughtily declared. Off Iskenderun, the Turkish navy and air force began...
...mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...
Enhancing Negroes' pride is their race is also partly behind the campaign currently being conducted by the first Negro women in Mississippi ever to run for national office. A 47-year-old sharecropper has qualified to run in the June 2 primary against Rep. Jamie Whitten in the Second Congresional District, Another Negro is running against Sen. John Stennis in the Democratic primary...