Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admired Theodore H. White's frankness and vividness in describing the events in China both present and past [Sept. 26]. I am of Taiwanese background and was reared on propaganda against China. After I came to the U.S., I perceived the difference between reality and hyperbole. Nevertheless, the pride of Taiwan equals the pride of mainland China. Taiwan should be left alone...
Some employees accepted the pay cuts because they felt there was no real choice. Said Flight Engineer Joseph Glavin: "They've got us between a rock and a hard place. You can quit and save your pride, or you can continue to work and hope for the best." Flight Attendant Jacki Vanderhock, 29, agreed to a 50% cut, from about $2,200 a month to $1,000. Said she: "I think we'll make it. At least if we agreed to work, we had a job and a future...
Frustration and injured pride mark Korea's reaction. Annexed as a colony by Japan in 1910 and abjectly poor and totally dependent upon the US for its survival after the devastating Korean War. Korea has recently emerged on the world stage as a new industrial power and formidable economic competitor. Delegations from third world countries and southern states such as Alabama beat paths to Korea's door seeking investments. Justifiably proud of along history and sophisticated cultural achievements, in recent years Koreans have regained an acute faculty of national and racial pride and basked in this belated recognition. Koreans...
...American support of the government as working against their interests. Only the tiniest minority of Korean citizens are truly anti-American, but a large portion of the population is now quite cynical about the American role in Korea's destiny. This cynicism is borne out of a rekindled national pride and frustration with Korea's insurmountable weakness in the face of superpower moves, like the KAL007 incident...
...sitting in the Oval Office rubber stamped the blatantly fixed elections of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastassio Somoza. A similar policy has prevailed for dealing with equally corrupt Guatemala since 1954, when a U.S.-instigated coup deposed the democratically elected, but leftist, Arbenz government. And the Reagan Administration points with pride to its role in conducting and monitoring the March 1982 elections in El Salvador certainly not the model of democratic procedure some have claimed they were since the ballots were numbered and the left was precluding from participating by the existence of government "death lists...