Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stifled. For the first time, there are doubts within the bureau and within the Administration about the FBI's ability to serve as an effective agency against subversion. An experienced former CIA agent, until recently an open admirer of the director, remarks unhappily: "Hoover, because of his personal pride, has seriously affected the efficient operation of American intelligence. And personal pride in a matter of national security has no place. If a guy does that, he is a real liability...
...American right thereupon proclaimed that at last they had proof that Acheson was the Communist dupe they had said he was. Under attack as never before, Acheson offered to resign, but Truman, who vastly admired him, pluckily backed him up. "I suppose an element of pride entered into this," Acheson later explained. "I knew this question was going to be asked. And I knew the press was going to believe I'd run. And I just said, 'I'm not going to run. I'm going to let you have it right...
Feelings shows four-to-nine-year-olds how to cope with their emotions-pride, shame, jealousy, loneliness, disappointment. Author Berger first poses the problem: "When I get home, Barry calls to tell me that he can't come over. I have no one to play with." Beneath a moody black-and-white photograph, the emotion is defined: "I feel lonely." The solution is printed alone on a full page: "After a while I get a book and some toys. I find that I can have fun when I am alone...
...commission did find one hopeful sign: a "new tough pride, self-confidence and determination" of minorities to build their own grass-roots institutions of self-help and reach "for the levers of power." At the same time, the report warns: "The most disturbing point most of those we spoke with made was that they had no faith at all in 'the System'-the Government and the private wielders of power-as a protector or a provider...
...Cornell: It's almost Columbus Day, and Ed. will be out to do justice for his ethnic following. Besides, Ed will be faced with a challenge from Princeton's Scandinavian Bjorklund. Not only the Ivy title and the Heismann trophy are at stake; it's a matter of historical pride...