Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven were the sins-pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth -that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other offenses against God.* For most 20th century men, the list seems a trifle quaint. In a world where millions are hungry because there is too little food, and millions more because they are dieting, gluttony, for example, takes on certain ironies...
...Sunday Times sin samplers range from longtime agnostic and Critic Cyril Connolly, whose report on covetousness is a jaunty little tale of how a greedy antique collector comes to a Bad End, to Roman Catholic Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who rather admired the sin assigned to her. "Pride may be my own besetting sin," she wrote, "but it is also my besetting virtue. Certainly my life has been spent in saying 'Ha ha among the trumpets.' " Among the other contributions, published in the U.S. this week as The Seven Deadly Sins (Morrow...
...country's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million; of a heart attack; in Houston. Brown & Root's most recent spectacular is a $30 million Mohole contract to drill into the earth's core, but Brown's greatest source of pride was a 1942 U.S. Navy contract to build and operate a shipyard, deliver a specified number of ships by a specified date. Brown & Root had never built a ship, but the company met its schedule...
...execution that got out of hand, but as an exemplary show of royal authority. Thus embellished in reputation. Catherine was able to get her son Henry elected King of Poland (he became King of France the next year). She lived on for years, successfully seeking complications, and perhaps taking pride in the nickname given her by the ambassadors she outwitted: "Madame la Serpente...
When it comes to pride, the Yalies have an obnoxious amount of it, and that factor alone could give them the game, by a touchdown...