Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: ". . . Head of the greatest mercantile establishment of its kind extant, a New York landmark that is the pride and also the benevolent pickpocket of the City at large, whose Red Star is the lodestar for thrifty shoppers the world over...
...Civic Pride. Today's KQED's programs include a 30-show series on the U.S. economy, and a twelve-part series on The World and Physics, conducted by Physicist Teller. Each is a high-level professional show, but each is also entertaining. Philosophized Day: "Being high-minded is not enough. This process of discovery that we call education is exciting, and we should make it so." KQED-TV has done just that, and out of gratitude and civic pride, San Francisco's citizens have responded with financial support to help keep it proudly solvent...
...near Fairbanks. Housewives, lawyers, pilots and merchants, they brought with them packets of state papers, copies of constitutions and history books, set to work writing a provisional constitution. For 75 days, the Alaskans labored, phrasing, rephrasing, arguing. At length, on Feb. 5, 1956, emotionally spent, physically exhausted, brimming with pride, they voted to approve a finely hewn document. "These are good, tough men and women, and I wondered if we might not be getting carried away," recalls Alaska University President Ernest N. Patty, "so I looked for [Real Estate Man] Muktuk Marsdon-this big, tough man with a face like...
...each of the 26 foreign cities on its eight-week grand tour, the Philadelphia Orchestra carried calling cards: presentation copies of the Declaration of Independence. And by last week the Philadelphians also carried a bale of rave notices. From London to Moscow, the pride of Philadelphia was the toast of Europe-an extraordinary experience even for a U.S. orchestra that has few peers anywhere in the world...
...fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather and immodesty, when a house is only a shelter, when the thrill is gone out of buying and pride fades out of ownership, we are headed for something worse than a mere depression. We are headed for a whole new kind of economy that none of us are going to enjoy...