Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...
...Swiss pride themselves on discreetly welcoming even the most notorious guest, but even they were hard put last week to keep their cool. Into their midst dropped perhaps the biggest defector ever to leave the Soviet Union, Stalin's daughter Svetlana. That was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the force of 200 reporters and TV cameramen that fanned across the country in search of Svetlana, to whom the Swiss gave a visa and the promise of privacy. While Swiss detectives plotted the newsmen's progress like generals keeping tabs on enemy guerrillas, the international press...
...hardly believe his eyes when he put on the trick spectacles at the prizewinning display of Argentina's Julio Le Pare, 38, at the Venice Biennale last summer. In front of the eyeholes loomed shiny flaps of metal reflecting his own disbelief. Argentine military brass, puffed out with pride that their countryman had won the Grand Prix for painting, deflated with astonishment when they stood in front of one of Le Fare's "paintings"-a long sheet of shiny metal that captured their own images, then freakishly elongated them as they pressed the foot pedal that...
Thai Nguyen was Hanoi's much-publicized pride and joy, symbolizing its hopes for an industrialized future. Built with Chinese aid, equipment and technicians, its 48 large buildings were scattered over nearly three square miles. It employed 200 engineers, 2,000 technicians, and some 12,000 workers on three shifts. Destined to be the most modern metalworks in all of Southeast Asia when completed in 1969, Thai Nguyen was already turning out 200,000 tons of cast iron, supplying 80% of North Viet Nam's iron and steel alloy needs. It also had a vital role in Hanoi...
...there are dull people on the Faculty and in the student body; many of them are satisfied with the repetition of their daily jobs and, moreover, probably perform well at them. Like most administrators. Monro can take the routine in hand and enjoyit. There is a certain sense of pride and duty in this: "If I didn do it," he will say, "then Dean Ford would have to do it. "But what separate a good many Harvard administrators from being simply bureaucrats is that they do not stop with this. And Monro--according to his colleagues--is one of these...