Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs are warm, kind, generous people. They do not wish to be the supreme power in the Middle East. They ask only for what belongs to them-that to which they are entitled. Their land, their country, their pride. Is that not the reason we are in the Viet Nam war, so that the Vietnamese may keep what belongs to them? BARBARA D. OWEN Columbus...
...people, like the highly skilled members of the craft unions, who can earn more when business is good, tend to live in communities where ethnic ties are still strong. Whether they occupy one-and two-family row houses or ranks of monotonously alike apartment buildings, working-class families take pride in an orderly environment. They readily feel threatened by population shifts that change the makeup of their schools, road projects that cut up their neighborhoods, public housing projects that bring in welfare recipients. Like any citizens, they would like more and better amenities and services: a new school, park...
...father of the black novel, laid claim to "a right more immediately deep er than that of politics or race . . . .that is, a human right, the right of a man to think and feel honestly." In Chicago, a mural on a ghetto wall glowers and glows at passersby in pride and in challenge. Or, hear Owen Dodson...
...only real competition in the game was between Harvard's first and second lines. Frank Jurado and Bob Litt tallied in the third period to move the reserves ahead 3-2. but left wing Bill Bellows scored twice in the final session to save the pride of the starters...
...Part of De Gaulle's magic lay in his ability to lift his countrymen from such petty aspirations -and from such deep self-doubt. Now both appear to be returning more distressingly than ever. No one believes that France, the revolutionary birthplace of modern democracy, has lost all pride and will sink into smug complacency because De Gaulle has gone. Frenchmen have realized, however, that their rating as a nation depends less on one man's words or actions than on their combined deeds...