Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wattsians are trying to achieve by peaceful, productive means the sense of racial pride and accomplishment that Black Power advocates hope to instill with bomb and bullet...
Source of Pride. He spoke with the authority of a man who has not let his own dealings with Russia dim his basic Western sympathies. And he obviously has an admirer in Lyndon Johnson. "When I visited Iran just five years ago," the President noted last week at a White House dinner for his guest, "Iran's land reform program had barely begun. Today, 50% of Iran's rural families farm their own land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran...
...with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story, to the little Negro girl in her everyday dress and the deaf old patriarch in his straight-backed chair, Woodville perfectly captured the sense of awe and thrill of pride surrounding the derring-do down South. Americans apparently thought so too-they bought 14,000 prints of the painting...
...Reuther, too, is under pressure-though in his case it is pride and power, not profits, that are at stake. For one thing, a smashing victory in Detroit would help his running war with George Meany, 73, and the aging A.F.L.-C.I.O. hierarchy, which he charges is in need of "rejuvenation." Then again, he has an aging problem of his own. More than 40% of the U.A.W.'s 1,500,000 members are under 30, whereas Reuther turns 60 on Sept. 1. He is having particular trouble with the 200,000 U.A.W. skilled tradesmen, who long...
...crowded: a gentle, ineffectual bank clerk, his wife and their small son, his parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find new jobs...