Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when their troops broke and ran from the advancing Israelis. The public scorn, humiliation-and self-contempt-rankled, leaving behind smoldering hatred for Israel and a lust for revenge. Among sensitive Arabs the public shame of their defeats was as bitter as the loss of territory. Pride looms large in the Arab psyche; its loss is an intolerable affront...
Both the Arabs and the Israelis have lived a history of oppression--the Arabs through the brutalizing effects of European colonialism; the Israelis, through centuries of vicious bigotry which culminated in Nazi genocide. The history of each group forged in its members a special pride along with a fragile sensitivity against being trespassed upon...
...labor agents were uprooting growing numbers of Vietnamese from their ancient villages and shipping them to burgeoning rubber plantations, where the Vietnamese--the French took their names away and assigned them numbers--bitterly confronted a hard and tenuous life torn from their past. Also at this time, Vietnamese national pride was increasing, particularly among the growing class of Vietnamese civil servants who the French trained to administer but did not let rule. The French were swiftly eradicating traditional Vietnam; what would replace it was an open question...
Ford said it was "with pride I have supported our country's policies at home and abroad aimed at seeking peace worldwide...
...didn't like the idea of poison gases," Fieser says, "but I swallowed my pride and took the assignment." However, during a delay in the work while new safety hoods were being installed in the Harvard labs to protect the scientists from the gases, Fieser got interested in incendiaries...