Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro's history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters...
...earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived to grind his employees under heel turns up in Dolly as Horace Vandergelder (David Burns), the matchmaker's mate-to-be, and announces with refreshing pride that he is "rich, friendless, and mean, which in Yonkers is about...
...many of us are ignorant of the architects, the surgeons, the bishops and diplomats whose achievement slaps the face of those bigots who brand the Negro as naturally inferior. I was filled with a sense of pride, especially since I am not a Negro, in seeing these men and women proving that the Negro's potential is equal to the white's and must not be wasted...
...tendencies, could not understand why the expert developed a crippling block against completing the military research he was involved in. "The solution lay right before him," Hughes says. "For the student had quite unwittingly run up against a classic case of inner conflict. His protagonist's technical and military pride were locked in hidden combat with his leftist and pacifist leanings...
...provided for new students in schools. It was not all roses, for inflation was rising (see WORLD BUSINESS), and industrial progress was slowing slightly, but there was justification for le grand Charles's rhetorical question: "When did we ever do so much in the past?" He viewed with pride the birth of 900,000 French babies last year and boasted that many of these newborn infants "will one day see a France with 100 million inhabitants...