Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slave mentality still eats at that morale, still drips acids on the selfesteem. The external arrangements of things (Jim Crow and all the rest) seeped many generations ago into the heart and left there an annihilating anger and, sometimes, a self-loathing. Blackness has found it difficult to esteem itself in the imperiously white contexts of things. Besides, some of the arrangements designed to help poor blacks have simply replicated the patterns of the plantation. It is the same old configuration of subservience and noblesse oblige, of dependence and resentment and contempt, the part of the (benevolent) master played...
Johnson is not held in total esteem by his associates on the ski team. His bold arrogance contrasted with the appealing wonder of Debbie Armstrong, 20, so surprised to be perched on the gold-medal stand that she could scarcely stop laughing. U.S. men and women skiers were able o share this feeling in the same Olympics for the first time, Armstrong winning the women's giant slalom. A delightful former tomboy devoted to all games, whether booting soccer balls or shooting 'hoops," she concluded that skiing was her favorite sport only after a broken leg two years...
...teacher in the Odessa school system, I would like to remind you that the Greeks, who held scholars in the highest esteem, also prized athletes. I have never had an A-student jock who did not place English, math, science and history above athletic honors, and I have had more A-type jocks than those scraping to pass...
Many are doing very well, in their bank accounts if not in the esteem of all of their colleagues. One Illinois defense attorney wears a heavy gold bracelet emblazoned in diamonds with "ll-501(a)," the legislative designation of the state's drunken-driving law. Unlike many defendants in other kinds of criminal cases, a large number of drunken drivers are middle class and thus able to pay for a competent defense. Even a simple case now costs a client $500 to $1,500 in most parts of the country. As cases get more complicated, fees inevitably rise. Francis...
...edges closer to danger when he begins to probe Hal's insecurities as an older, but equal friend might. But he penetrates the boy's shallow self-esteem too easily, and the frightened Hat runs for shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time...