Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take the White House swimming pool, once F.D.R.'s pride and joy. It used to have one wall with windows. But no longer. The windows have been filled in and in their place, as a gift from the President's father, is a mural depicting a glorious sunset scene of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. To keep dampness from peeling the sunset off the wall, Joe Kennedy had a special exhaust fan system installed...
Both lands, for different reasons, were suffused with national pride. Under De Gaulle, Frenchmen have shaken off the apathy induced by defeat in war and decades of domestic bickering. Today France's industry is one of the sturdiest...
...nation demanded supreme loyalty from its citizens, insisted on its superiority over other nationalities, fostered pride in the national character and destiny. Carried too far, these convictions played a part in World War I and in a perversion of nationalism, loosed the Nazi terror on the world, piling the earth with corpses...
...question in Alabama is whether Wallace will listen to calls for moderation increasingly heard since the Mississippi riots. Business, church and civic groups want no trouble. The university, which federal troops burned to the ground in the Civil War, is still combustible. But it takes a Southern pride in cheerful fraternities and ferocious football, wants no riots. The trustees sternly proclaim that "law and order must be maintained at all times on the University of Alabama campus...
...Pride in Carolina. Even more determined to have order is South Carolina, a state so proud of its colonial past that it is often said to regret the American Revolution. South Carolina has always preferred a polite white supremacy to redneck ruffianism. Unlike Mississippi, it is run by gentlemen to whom disgrace is far worse than desegregation. Governor-elect Donald S. Russell, former president of the university, paid only lip service to segregation in his campaign...