Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obligation to help advance its welfare. The hard-working student committee directing this effort has given much time and thought to its organization and objectives. I hope that all students of Harvard will respond promptly, understandingly, and generously to the cause and at same time derive a sense of pride in sharing a fundamental responsibility with the welfare agencies of Cambridge and the larger urban area of which Harvard is so much a part...
...spacemen were justifiably proud when their grapefruit-sized Vanguard I, the first U.S. satellite, continued to circle the earth long after later-launched rivals, both U.S. and Russian, bit the atmosphere. Now their pride has soured; Vanguard I has become a bore and a nuisance. Its radio voice, powered by solar cells, is still on the air after 4½ years. Its reports translate to nothing more important than "Here I am." And unstoppable broadcasts, which may well persist for 1,000 years, clutter up a precious radio channel...
...companies they run are, variously, monuments of socialist tradition, nationalist pride or the turbulence of the Depression and World War II. In France, state ownership of industry is estimated to be 20% or more. One lingering result of Mussolini's corporate state is that modern Italian businessmen must operate in an economy where more than one-third of business is controlled by the government. In Germany, Hitler's Third Reich started Volkswagen to produce his "people's car," but it made war vehicles instead and is still 40% state-owned. Governments control every major European airline-because...
...which, given the snob appeal that foreign products enjoy in Japan, will make them closely competitive with Suntory. Preparing for that day, President Saji has launched a major advertising campaign, sponsoring such made-in-Hollywood TV shows as 77 Sunset Strip. The campaign sells prestige and national pride. One newspaper ad shows a Japanese man-of-distinction relaxing in his kimono and clutching a beaker of Old Suntory...
...Brigham Young," lectures a Mormon, "does not manifest itself exclusively in enormous truths which can only be contained in the brains of university professors; no, it lives also in the sewing machines of people who yesterday had correct thoughts, certainly, but no shirt." Laxness' Mormon men take sly pride in the number of wives they accumulate; their justifications of polyga my are delightfully specious: "Woman's salvation consists in having a righteous husband, and there can never be too many women sharing in such...