Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours," he says, realizing that the major diplomatic impact-not to mention the humanitarian aspects-of his coordinating function depends on speed in time of crisis. At that, some countries (including Algeria and Outer Mongolia) have chosen to reject American disaster aid out of ideological false pride...
...Gerhard Wessel, 54, an organization of 3,500 full-time employees that ranks after the CIA and Britain's MI-6 as the free world's most ubiquitous intelligence service. Though he will slip into retirement as furtively as he conducted his operations, Gehlen can take some pride in the fact that his reputation for omniscience has entered the German language. In response to an unanswerable question, a West German is likely to reply, "Das weiss nur der Gehlen" (Only Gehlen knows that...
...bronze star and had seen many of the headline battles fought with the North Vietnamese along the Cambodian border. Describing the helicopter he'd be trained to fly, the Cobra, as a "pile of guns attached to a couple of rotary blades," he said with very honest pride that his helicopter experience had been the only successful part of his life and except for his mother, there was nobody and nothing at home to care about so a long war was fine with him. He was making a lot of money, having a lot of excitement and was taken good...
Finally, Mehta crashed into the broad, exuberant themes of Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life). Looking up with a smile that radiated at once pride, self-mockery and unabashed immodesty, he proclaimed: "I'm quite a lot of a hero...
Headlong & Footloose. Even allowing for his impulsiveness and his pride in his own musicians, Mehta's outburst about Bernstein's job acutely highlighted a common attitude among the new young conductors. They are quite rightly dubious about some of the prestigious podiums that may soon be offered to them. Chary