Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have pride in my blocking." Crim says. "I feel I can run with the ball, but blocking is my main job in a well-rounded offense...
Precisely a year ago this week, Britain swallowed its pride and cut the exchange value of its tottering pound from $2.80 to $2.40. The third devaluation in 36 years was aimed at giving the country time to repair its foundering economy. The Labor government maintained that the devalued pound would swiftly turn the U.K.'s persistent trade deficit, a major source of sterling's troubles, into a surplus. With British goods much cheaper in the world marketplace, exports would rise while imports declined because foreign products automatically would cost Britons more. Surveying the early results, Prime Minister Harold...
...Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party, holds that Australia year by year is "selling off a part of the farm." Gorton's Liberal government denies that, maintains that without such investment Australia would be like Mexico, Bolivia, Indonesia or the Congo, allowing stubborn national pride to strangle national interests. Still, the Liberals would like foreign investors to be less stubborn too. Gorton, who often takes an oar in one of the lifeboat teams that Aussies love, would like to see the same sort of teamwork in the economy. David Fairbairn, Minister for National Development, notes...
...message and a dynamic leadership for the peculiar and urgent needs of the black people." The present religious task, added the Rev. Melvin Talbert, a Methodist district superintendent in California, "is to help black people find themselves, to restore to the black man a sense of dignity and pride." Once this is achieved, suggests Talbert, the time will have come "to move across racial barriers-if we want...
...hurls his anathemas, he tends to scream unintelligibly, suggesting the hapless actor of whom Kenneth Tynan wrote that listening to his Lear "was like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." But during the storm on the heath, Cobb's Lear gains in compassionate wisdom what he loses in pride and sanity. As he shelters the shivering Fool, listens to the gibberings of mad Tom and later gazes into the bloody, eyeless face of Gloucester, Lear sheds his vanity and learns of his oneness with "unaccommodated man . . . such a poor bare forked animal...