Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany's relative prosperity has particularly impressed the country's youth, which remembers nothing but the drabness of the postwar period. Instead of reveling in the sadness of their plight, as they were doing only a few years ago, the young have been gripped by a certain pride of accomplishment. This pride is intensified by the fact that, next to industry, education has received top financial priority. Where there were only six universities with facilities for 8,000 students in 1946, there are now 44 universities and technical institutes with an enrollment of 220,000 full-time students...
...house to a twice-weekly tour whose proceeds he gave to charity. His will leaves his house and its treasures to his family in the U.S. But Jim Thompson, whether or not he survives his walk in the jungle, has left the Thais an even more priceless gift: a pride in Thai craftsmanship, announced around the world in banners of the iridescent silks that he made famous...
...Gaulle himself was too busy to attend the ceremony. He had journeyed to Cherbourg, where, with imperial pride, he launched France's first nuclear-powered submarine, the 5,200-ton Le Redoubtable. Built at a cost of $143 million, the submarine will eventually be fitted with French-built, Polaris-type missiles (range: 1,245 miles) to beef up De Gaulle's fledgling force de frappe; De Gaulle hopes to build three more by 1974. "I am very happy," said the General. "This is a capital day for our defense and for our independence." De Gaulle was saying...
...barely under way when a Volkswagen driven by the Kenyan team of Tommy Fjastad and Bev Smith shot over a precipice, plunged 100 ft. and burst into flames. Somehow, both Fjastad and Smith escaped unhurt. Other drivers found the road blocked by elephants, giraffes, antelopes-and a whole pride of lions, which refused to budge despite blaring horns...
...Getty know the man's mind was made up? "Fingertips, fingertips," he said later. "You just have to sense it. This man was a killer, and I just had to get it out into the open." In his questioning, Getty appealed over and over again to pride, looking ahead to the moment when the jury retires to begin its deliberations. "You are going to reach a verdict out of the depths of your own mind and conscience, aren't you? You wouldn't let someone sway you?" Prosecutor Martin needs twelve unanimous jurors to win a verdict...