Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on the Dole. Britain's insecurity has been exacerbated by 14 long months of haggling with the Europeans. Swallowing their pride and reversing centuries-old tradition, the British decided in mid-1961 to cross the Channel and make common cause with the Continent. Then last week, just as they were within sight of their goal, Charles de Gaulle of France contemptuously closed the door on perfidious Albion...
...stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...conservatory where he hoped to study, he is forced to work at a low job tickling the ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...
...rainbow. Feininger also saw mystery in the machine, but his machines tended to come either from the past or from way off in the future. His nostalgic Old Locomotive is almost like a person-a gallant, superannuated old gentleman that keeps chugging along out of sheer determination and stubborn pride...
...Bullpen. Nowadays Packard, who is the company's president, and Hewlett, who is executive vice president in charge of the product line, put quality above all else. To give their factory hands some pride of accomplishment, they periodically have individual workers put together an instrument from start to finish rather than pass it down an assembly line. And they strive to preserve the creative informality of their old garage days. Even though Hewlett-Packard operates out of a modern six-building complex in Stanford's industrial park and has subsidiaries all over the U.S. and Europe, only...