Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huntlands agreement, still to be ratified by the Dutch and Indonesian governments, was succinctly described by a State Department official: "The Indonesians got Dutch New Guinea, which was inevitable, and the Dutch got off with most of their pride, which was not inevitable." Satisfied that they do not have to turn their former colony directly over to Indonesia and that provisions for an eventual plebiscite have been made, the Dutch are expected to accept. What Indonesia does is subject as always to the whim of its mercurial President Sukarno, who has been waging a nasty little paratroop war against...
Then it dawned on the British pride that some rich American collector or museum would in all likelihood buy the drawing and take it away. Snowed under by protests, the fusty academy agreed to postpone the sale. Since then, more than 703,000 Britons have seen the once neglected work on display at the National Gallery−and a sizable number of them have thrown a shilling or two into a collection to buy it for the National Gallery. By last week, these and other contributions reached within $980.000 of the cut-rate $2,240,000 that the academy...
Manuel Sai of Ghana said that as a result of independence, national pride may soon conquer one evil associated with the old colonial mentality: an over-emphasis on extreme accuracy at the expense of speed in the civil service...
...uniformed ranks there is a resentment based not only on the fact that the Whiz Kids are not members of the club (West Point or Annapolis); the military men feel that they are being passed over and disdained, that their hard-won knowledge is dismissed as obsolete and service pride taken for sentimental partisanship, that their inability to talk the new Whiz Kid lingo is taken as stupidity. The best of the old soldiers long ago tried to get sophisticated themselves in developing and using the advanced weapons, and planning the strategy and tactics of modern warfare. These men think...
...mums and local blokes went Tory Stalwart Duncan Sandys, 54, once the husband of Winston Churchill's daughter Diana, but now showing off his French-born bride of three months, Marie-Claire, 33. His silk-sheathed wife knocked down eight at a blow. Then she looked on with pride as Prime Minister Macmillan's Commonwealth Secretary doffed his coat and on his very first roll bowled a tenpin strike...