Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yard, we mocked the first-years sporting '00 shirts, wondering how one could take pride in any attire proudly proclaiming one as a "zero." And we visited our old dorm rooms, imparing unwarranted advice to this year's new denizens as they stared at us with looks of amusement and/or disdain and/or both. Sometimes they mistook us for first-years, launching into the name and where you're from (in Harvard life and in real life) diatribe, but otherwise, they saw us as superfluous appendages, people who had long since passed their prime and outlived their usefulness...
Homeopaths pride themselves, for example, in their use of many different remedies for illnesses that are treated by conventional doctors with single medicines. Practitioners of homeopathy also place great importance on obtaining a meticulously detailed medical history that includes dreams and childhood experiences, enabling them to customize therapy. Chiropractic and massage, two of the three alternative therapies most used by Americans (along with relaxation techniques), provide another component many patients feel is lacking in high-tech medicine: touching, as both a curative and an extension of compassion...
...seamlessly from anecdotes told by cops and teachers, to appropriate quotations from Aristotle and Abe Lincoln. Wary of setting himself up for a fall as the King of Virtue, Bennett (an enthusiastic eater who tries to save himself with furious bouts of power walking) jokes about his lapses into pride and gluttony...
...economics concentrator and the pride of Leverett House, has but one thing on his mind in this his final season wearing the Crimson and Black: an Ivy League title...
...economics concentrator and the pride of Leverett House, has but one thing on his mind in this his final season wearing the Crimson and Black: an Ivy League title...