Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another horrendous, senseless war! What have the Arabs to gain? Unfortunately they have no national pride and can only rally with a war cry against Israel...
...like any craftsman, Steve takes pride in his product. When he runs out of clams, he does not mind telling you about the other clam sellers in Ipswich. But he is quick to warn you that the other clams may not be fresh, and somehow you know that the warning is sincere and not competitive salesmanship...
...achieve? If the U.S. and Soviet Union do sponsor peace negotiations, it has broken the long no-war, no-peace stalemate that so disturbed the Arabs. The Syrians and Egyptians, in fighting manfully against the supposedly better-trained Israelis, restored a measure of much-needed national pride. By giving its Arab allies both materiel and moral support, the Soviet Union regained much of its prestige in the Middle East (see box page 38). A small winner may well be Jordan, which retrieved diplomatic recognition from Egypt and Syria and oil subsidies from Kuwait in return for a handful of casualties...
Arab political leaders generally avoided calling the battle a holy war. In fact, the conflict with Israel is much more complicated. Both sides possess intense national and ethnic pride. Thus some Arab Christians as well as Moslems are committed to the Arab cause; many Jews who are not at all religious have died for Israel. Yet the majority of the combatants belong to two of the world's major religions, and they are on opposite sides...
Streaking at 125 miles an hour along the 420-mile scenic route between Tokyo and the central city of Okayama, Japan's gleaming, automated bullet trains have long been a keen source of pride to the country and the envy of railroad men the world over. Yet, beneath the bright image of the Shinkansen, or bullet express, most of the country's rail service, operated by the government-owned Japanese National Railways, is a tangled, money-losing mess of aged equipment, angry employees and boiling riders. So bad is the trouble that a few weeks ago, JNR President...