Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplished this miracle of recovery was Charles de Gaulle, who in 1958 took over a nation with a mere $19 million left in its treasury and even less moral credit around the world. He restored both the franc and France's prestige. He also restored French pride: even casual visitors in the years after his takeover noticed a new French self-confidence that contrasted with the half-apologetic, half-arrogant attitude often found before. Until a few weeks ago, and despite an occasional flicker of trouble, De Gaulle ruled a France enviably serene and stable, seemingly the very model...
...matter to most Frenchman that abroad, De Gaulle kept Britain out of Europe, did his annoying best to thwart the U.S., meddled in Quebec and increasingly behaved like a cantankerous old man. There is a little of Napoleon in every French breast, and the nation took a certain pride in De Gaulle's ability to command far more attention for France than its power and resources deserved...
...drugs, mostly marijuana, became significantly widespread among students at Exeter and Andover in the last two years. Exeter and Andover are very similar schools started one year apart by a pair of brothers about 200 years ago. They have gratefully less tradition than an institution like Harvard; they pride themselves on turning out lots of people who later turn up in key positions in the American business, educational, and governmental establishment; and they still drastically restrict the activities of their students eight months of the year because that is the system that has worked for them in the past. Andover...
...afraid I want them to act on their doubts as well as on their political princlples. I want them to demonstrate some of the tension that goes between humility and arrogance, some of the tension that goes between idealism and pragmatism, some of the tension that goes between pride and self-doubt and a kind of inner agony...
...COLLEGES. These stag institutions preserve earlier collegiate styles, like the Jazz Age pride in holding hard liquor one can still find at the University of Virginia, the teen-age muscularity of Princeton or Notre Dame, or the John Wayne militarism of Texas...