Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewed. Describing one youthful escapade, Tunku commented, "I'm a lazy man." An aide watched in evident distress as Mohr wrote it down. Tunku merely chuckled: "It's too late now." A man so ready to concede his own mistakes, Reporter Mohr concluded, could count on justified pride in many achievements...
...James Johnson Sweeney, and a symphony orchestra whose current conductor is Sir John Barbirolli. But the city has not lost its frontier character. "There is freedom of movement here that I have not seen anywhere else," says a recent arrival. Says a Houston oil executive, aglow with civic pride:."This is the last frontier...
What was still uncertain last week was whether Nasser is prepared to drop or modify his present determination to unite only with "liberated" Arab states and to shun monarchies. Said new Jordanian Prime Minister Rifai: ''We have our pride. We are just as healthy and strong as any Arab state. We don't intend to rush into anything, but we do intend to proclaim our good will and our attachment to Arab unity." Then he added hopefully, "There's every reason for the new Arab union to welcome Jordan and no reason to bar a constitutional...
...compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death." Because Tamura shows no mercy to himself, he can show none to others. But at the point of utter degradation, Tamura at last finds his will. While other surviving Japanese turn to cannibalism, Tamura balks and takes a bitter pride in refusing the flesh of another human. At long last, he is able to utter the words that come so easily to people in a free world: "No one can make me do what I do not want...
...Arab brethren also share pride in Nasser's achievements at home in the years since Suez. Cairo, a city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day reflecting in their glass walls the stately grace of the sails of feluccas headed upriver with cargoes of wheat and lime...