Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past six months, representatives of the Seattle police department and the Seattle Urban League have been conducting a survey of Negro crime, in order to develop programs of rehabilitation and prevention. Northern communities have to shed their finger-pointing and false pride, and realize that they too have a responsibility for correcting flagrant racial situations, particularly in housing...
...three times as much leisure. Worcester's jewel-box museum, the best of its size in the country, with a choice selection of objects and paintings ranging from a 3,000 B.C. Sumerian stone figure to Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso, will give Rich professional pride and satisfaction, plus the chance to work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need to show U.S. art abroad. He will also have three months a year for vacation or travel. Says he contentedly, "it looks like...
...taxi driver by trade, Traiko D. Ivanov was allowed to keep his black 1927 Chrysler touring car under Communism. But with the fiery pride of the Macedonian mountaineer, he did not like what the Communists were doing to Bulgaria, could see no future ahead for his three sons, and thought of fleeing to Australia or America. As a Macedonian, it was easy enough for him to get a pass to visit his sister in her village across the border in Yugoslav Macedonia, but how would he get out of Communist Yugoslavia into the freedom of Greece? Ivanov decided to make...
Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
Chile's Linea Aérea Nacional, for example, is subsidized by the government, does a sedate business at I.A.T.A. rates by ap pealing to national pride. Others offer special services, such as the direct European flights of Panair do Brasil, Cubana Air lines and Colombia's 38-year-old Avianca...