Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general and Mr. Dulles in particular." On a memorable October day he flew to the Crimea and a first meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. After some 19 toasts and some hard talk on NATO, Pearson and three aides marched straight, heads up, to their car, noted with pride that they left their hosts in worse condition than they were...
Inside China, according to Snow's estimates, the revolution has the support of about 80-90 per cent of the people. Almost everyone he talked with during his visit, even those people whose wealth and status has declined since 1949, took great pride in their country's recent achievement...
...moral justification for a regime, even if its leaders have managed to acquire widespread popular support. Hitler, after all, built good roads and won himself some elections. According to Snow, however, the Chinese government has demonstrated neither the brutality nor the imperialist tendencies of a fascist state. National pride is widespread, to be sure, and, after ten years of indoctrination, so is widespread belief in the eventual triumph of world communism. But according to all the official propaganda, at least, this does not mean Chinese or Russian territorial expansion. The Chinese intend to aid and encourage independent, "national wars...
...Snow in his book seems to take a kind of whimsical, slightly naughty pride in dropping names of people most Americans associate with evil incarnate (something along the "I was the only person ever to interview Mao Tse Tung in his pajamas" line), this only defines his perspective. It does not destroy his objectivity. The great value of Snow's massive collection of personal observation, statistics, anecdotes, and philosophical commentary lies in his intimate acquaintance with the Chinese scene, before and after so to speak. Here is a man who lived in China for about fifteen years before the Revolution...
...hemmed in by the paraphernalia of a semipolice state-threats of jail, surveillance, party slogans. Jakob's mother and the girl are already in the West. Why doesn't Jakob join them? Jakob is not fond of the party, or of the Russians. But he takes pride in doing his job well. When a Russian troop train must be rushed through to put down the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he shunts off local traffic to let it pass. He rejects a colleague's suggestion that the switchmen should hold it up. Such a gesture is a frivolous...