Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence," said Author John Steinbeck 60. "But I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision...
...Mongolian people. They also retain an intense nationalism ("We feel close to Lenin," said one official, "because he had Mongolian blood on his mother's side"), which still arouses Russian .suspicion. A member of the Mongolian Communist Central Committee was expelled this year for ultranationalist tendencies. Pride in their country's achievements makes Mongols eager for contact with the rest of the world, and Mongolia has tried hard to establish diplomatic relations with the U.S. On the occasion of Outer Mongolia's admission to the United Nations last year, Washington declared it had "explored the possibility...
Downtown Pomona's physical face lifting has led to a new elan among storekeepers and their customers. Shops have been refurbished, stocks have been replenished, new businesses have moved in. "There's an air of excitement and pride," says one Pomonan. "I was downtown last Sunday, and there must have been 500 people just walking up and down the street looking in the store windows. I can't remember how long it's been since people came downtown on Sunday." Exclaimed a merchant: "Why, I came out of my store at midnight the other night...
...instead of the sweet. Miss Eakin's part isn't as funny, but that is surely no reflection on her abilities, which are considerable. She handles the difficult scene in which she first meets her awkward lover with grace and ease; and she switches from the charming squire's pride and joy to the wild little eighteenth century B-girl with equal facility...
...great whale's heart, he seeks to know the secret of the universe, striving, in the same moment, to destroy the neutral, unresponsive "whiteness" of all that is impervious to man. Like all great tragic heroes, Ahab dies in the glory and blasphemy of a rebellious pride that will not accept a universe that is not man-centered. And since the tragic hero bears with him the stifled rebellion of lesser men, his death is awesomely like a crucifixion...