Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about how the rains come to a dust-bowl daisy named Lizzie Curry (Katharine Hepburn). Lizzie is a girl who believes she is "as plain as old shoes," and that no man would want to have her underfoot. Nevertheless, she can't help wanting to be there. "Pride? I ran out of that a long time ago," she tells her father (Cameron Prud'Homme) and two brothers (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They rush into town and, in a hilarious parody of the old John Alden bit, invite the deputy sheriff...
...find it difficult to understand why Harry Byrd and many other Virginians don't take more pride in their Negro citizens and the progress they have made. I have seen other Southern states, where most of the Negroes seemed dirty and devoid of all social graces, but in Virginia, where I once lived, the average Negro pretty well matched the typical middle-class person anywhere. They are a credit to their state and certainly are not objectionable as fellow students for anyone else's children...
...service to civil rights. The elections also encouraged Republicans to try even harder for the Negro's vote. Result: at least 70 Senators and a healthy House majority are determined to pass a civil-rights bill. In the face of such strength, the Southern leaders of Congress, who pride themselves on recognizing (and facing) reality, are prepared to give...
...Essential Feeling. Although he now bases himself in Dallas, Dozier is constantly on the prowl, ranging from the bayous to the Big Bend with sketchbook in hand. Says Dozier, with a shy pride: "I can recognize any sound I hear at night and tell what kind of animal or insect made it. As I've grown older, I've gotten more interested in the architecture of how things grow. Mountains have a bony structure, just like everything else. When you realize a mountain is a moving thing, you know there is movement in everything." Having first made dozens...
...Student Employment Office does not pride iself so much on being an important part of the University as it does on helping the individual student. Whether it is a matter of lightening a work load to help marks, rescheduling a job to allow time for extracurricular activities, or simply offering personal advice, the Office wants to be helpful. And with this kind of philosophy, it generally is.A student bartender, in heavy demand at this season, pours a drink at party...