Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confrontation," he says. Smith's chosen instrument was Operation Bootstrap (see BUSINESS), a black-owned, black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says he: "Change is going to come in this country, and it's going to come from the bottom...
Charles de Gaulle's government is squirming over a new affront to French pride - and this time the transgressor is a Frenchman, Pierre Bercot, the imperious head of Citroën, France's second biggest automaker. Climaxing months of secret negotiations, Bercot revealed plans last week for a union of his ailing company with Fiat, the Italian automaker that ranks fourth in the world, behind only the U.S. Big Three. "It is not a question of Citroën's troubles," Bercot said, "but the problem of the entire European automobile industry." That problem, as the French...
...Magnificently ugly," the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, "deliciously hideous." But in the ugliness of "this great, horse-faced bluestocking," James admitted with some awe, "resides a most powerful beauty . . . and sweetness-a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power...
This is something of a laughter, but there is just the slightest possibility that Cornell will be emotionally down this week, following an exciting come-from-behind win over Rutgers and preceding next Saturday's showdown with Harvard. Penn has to be bursting with the unfamiliar pride of two straight wins, over Bucknell and Brown, but the Big Red will hold on for a 23-10 decision...
...some of the play's funniest and most important moments come as Moliere is pointing out what stupid situations people get themselves into when blinded by pride...