Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty, Somalia is a stiff-necked nation. Its people pride themselves on their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones...
Next Time. While JPL experts are trying to find out what happened to their TV cameras, they can take pride in the rest of Ranger's performance. After completing its complicated mid-course correction without error, it hit the moon within a few miles of the planned target. Its radio transmitter never faltered, and its instruments reported faithfully. In the estimation of many space engineers, this is a greater achievement than sending any number of astronauts on passive trips around the earth. Since the TV cameras are not a notably unreliable part of the spacecraft's equipment, there...
...speak up at a press conference about Redeye, Shillelagh and Walleye-three highly classified non-nuclear U.S. weapons. But despite the doubts, Johnson went ahead, decided to let the reporters in on the secrets, "I think you would like to hear something about this because you can take great pride in it." Then he revealed the newest razzle dazzle in the U.S. arsenal...
Though it took its ungallic name from a Norwegian engineer, Compagnie des Machines Bull is as French as la gloire and pommes frites. The French fairly burst with pride when, using scientific skill and superb marketing, Machines Bull in the last decade briefly challenged giant IBM with its excellent small and efficient computers. Today Machines Bull is slipping toward bankruptcy-but pride has not been lost. Last week the French government blocked an offer by General Electric to buy up 20% of Machines Bull stock for a reported $40 million. Saving the company, said Finance Minister Valéry Giscard...
...only segment of West Germany's economy that has failed to recover from World War II is the one in which pre war Germans placed their greatest pride: the aircraft industry. Germany's famed planemakers, who once turned out 48,000 aircraft a year and employed 1,000,000 workers on behalf of the Third Reich, found peace something of a burden. They have developed no important new aircraft, employ only 32,000, and are facing their biggest post war crisis in the phasing out of their contracts to produce Lockheed and Fiat fighters for the German...