Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining Tom Spies's lack of a home, an associate says: "Tom has absolutely no pride of ownership. He takes the medals he gets, throws them in a drawer and never looks at them again." Despite his footloose way of life, Dr. Spies keeps a close watch on his patients; when he is away from Birmingham, he phones daily to check on their progress. Patients are devoted to him for another reason. Almost alone in his profession. Dr. Spies is careful never to use a word of more than two syllables if he can help...
Fleming's figures were underlined in a press conference in Washington where Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson took pride in the fact that his department this fiscal year is selling 7,500,000 bales of surplus cotton abroad v. total U.S. cotton exports last year of 2,200,000 bales. But Benson conceded that the Government will lose $530 million by selling cotton for an average of $115 a bale v. the Government cost...
...decided that "there is not the faintest question in our minds that Beck is completely guilty of violating the basic trade-union law that union funds are a sacred trust." Even this was not strong enough for George Meany. He needed an additional 20 minutes to tell the pudgy pride of Puget Sound "what I thought of his actions...
...hard-shell Republicans. But in following his conservative Texan instincts, Johnson has punched holes in one of the more important Democratic balloons--that is, its representation of itself as the party of idealism. Cynics will maintain that very few people vote Democratic for reasons of ideals--we all pride ourselves on being hard-headed and practical. But to a great many people Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman (yes, call them balloons) have meant something. and this something, though intangible, is politically important. At the moment, this something seems to be in the hands of the Ike-Republicans--Case, Javits...
...Sooner or Later." In the midst of all the dignified swallowing of pride that was going on, Israel proclaimed that it was about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal...