Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarter-century. Although I did not know it at the time, in my freshman year, 1972, Penn was emerging from a fiscal crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain because the salaries were largely covered by federal grants. From 1960 to 1970, operating expenditures at Penn quadrupled...
...STITCH IN TIME When Elias Howe finally patented the first practical sewing machine in 1846, he revolutionized the way clothing was made. Among the 155 exemplars displayed at the Antique Sewing Machine Museum in Arlington, Texas, Howe's early, ingenious appliances get pride of place...
...people principally responsible for getting Schauer [to the Kennedy School], I feel a particular sense of pride that he has done so well in such a brief period," said Kalb. "He has a wide-ranging mind, broad interests, deep commitment to public policy, mixed with a warm and engaging personality...
Davidson had trouble locating his character within the dialogue. He knew what John said, but he did not always know why, leaving the character without an arc. The concertina of pride and panic that Mamet composes for John was stripped of its subtleties. Instead, in each line, he strummed the same self-satisfied note...
What inspires this apparent masochism? It cannot be a love of dirty pizza; rather, it is an act of desperation. Without pride, we go to Tommy's and inhale its pizza because we have no choice...