Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you come right down to it, things don't change much over the course of history. Pride, honor, and courage still mean as much as they did in the days of the early Christians. But the U.S., because of indecisive, vacillating leadership, is being pictured as a country totally lacking these virtues. We have big talk delivered in ethereal prose by a President with a decided verbal aptitude. He knows all about the Madison Avenue image and the subliminal lure of clever words, but he doesn't know a damn thing about the yearnings of millions...
...nothing else, it should stimulate national pride and impress all readers with the intellectual integrity, foresight and fortitude of our forefather leaders, who produced the Declaration, the Constitution and a doctrine of high purpose to put our country onto the path to greatness, on which we now seem to be walking with such faltering steps...
...talked over his triumph with his brother, the President of the U.S.? No, but he hoped to shortly. Had he talked to his other brother, the U.S. Attorney General? No, but he hoped to shortly. Had he talked to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy? Replied Teddy, with the quiet pride of a son who knows he has pleased a demanding parent: "Yes, I talked to him. He was extremely excited...
...Northern employer may be expected to point with righteous pride to the fair practice laws of his state. Yet the abuse of these laws was brought to light by recent government investigations in the state of New York. These revealed that although no blank was left for race, nationality or religion on forms submitted to employment bureaus, many employers were skirting this by placing a small code, N.F.U. (not for us) in the corner of the forms...
With a new sense of pride in their battle for recognition and civil rights, many now consider domestic work demeaning, particularly in the North, where so many other jobs are available. Harlem still has its large core of older domestics, for example, but fewer and fewer younger girls look to domestic work as any sort of career; many would prefer to work in factories or stores...