Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Above Pride. At week's end Greece failed to muster a two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly for a resolution which urged further negotiations "with a view to have the right of self-determination applied in the case of the people of Cyprus." The U.N. rejection touched off new rioting...
Foot, who had arrived declaring that he had "an open mind," pleaded for calm in which Britain, Turkey and Greece could try to unravel the tangle. He was not going to let pride stand in his way. When local officials refused to come to see him at Government House, Foot called on Nicosia's Greek Cypriot mayor in his own home. "Things are bad-very bad," said Foot. "But give me a break and I know we can find...
...Administration's decision to arm our NATO allies with IRBMissiles seems another hasty jump out of the frying pan into the fire. England and France have demonstrated in the Suez affair how sorely our allies may be tempted to take impulsive, independent action. Our eagerness to bolster the pride and might of our allies should not cause us to forget that the first atomic-armed missile fired by any NATO finger will shoot the U.S. into an all-out nuclear...
...athletics, however, T.R.'s energy served him well, for it brought him somewhat closer to his fellows. Though not a great, or even a good college athlete, Roosevelt had taken to exercise to build up his asthma-weakened body. Endurance became a fetich with him, and he took great pride in outdoing his friends...
...diverted. I wandered through the alley-ways and knocked on brown-wood doors, and was admitted. Once inside, I watched the men speak lines and gesticulate, and somehow failed to understand. Beside a soundless stage my doubt played the part of a fool, incapable, strutting in a stupid pride, mute, dead, responding to a pair of strings attached to twitching thumbs...