Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home lowers the perilously high emigration rate, the government is finally beginning to rebut the bitter quip that Ireland is "a home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen, he seems more real than the Irish martyrs whose streaked statues fill Dublin's parks with silent declamation. Jack's homecoming epitomized to the Irish the successful distance they themselves have traveled...
...will be paralleled with grave responsibility from within the Negro race. As professional Negroes we do not stand blameless in view of widespread illegitimacy, misuse of housing by our lower classes, a low level of aspiration among our youth, a high percentage of school dropouts, and shame rather than pride in our ebony skins...
...citizens of Cologne, Kennedy brought greetings "from America, including the citizens of Cologne, Minnesota; Cologne, New Jersey; and even Cologne, Texas. As a citizen of Boston, which takes pride in being the oldest city in the U.S.,*I find it sobering to come to Cologne, where the Romans marched when the Bostonians were in skins. May I greet you with the old Rhenish saying: KÖlle Alaff! [Hurray for Cologne...
Hubert Cole's Laval is neither traitor nor hero. Instead he is a complex, unprepossessing peasant, skillful but overwhelmed by pride, brilliant but narrow, who gambled his life (plus what was left of his country's honor) in the hope of horse trading with Hitler to ease the pangs of the occupation in France. "If I succeed," Laval said prophetically in the dark days of 1942, "there won't be enough stones in this country to raise statues to me. If I fail, T will be shot...
...Nazidom. Written by a Lithuanian novelist who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, it tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Messkirch, narrating the story of his own fall, is a well-to-do landowner in rural Germany. He takes pride in being a skeptic, a cut above the fanatical urban upstarts who are running the country. But in countless small ways, he betrays the weaknesses of character -the obtuseness, the occasional coarseness, the racism-that the Nazis know so well how to exploit...