Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment last week, two traits of Bob Dole the lawmaker came to the rescue of Bob Dole the candidate--the ability to swallow your pride and to make peace with your past. To arrive at the astonishing choice of Jack Kemp as his running mate, a man who has spent a good part of his political career spearing Bob Dole, required both. Dole admitted as much in a Thursday-night phone call to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, his successor as majority leader and a good friend of Kemp's. If Kemp was the one, Dole told Lott, it would...
...called western Kansas, where the weather's hard, the water's hard, and anything that comes easy probably isn't worth having. This way, the hard way, says Dole, is the only way he has ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that...
...believe the polls or, if he did, wouldn't put much faith in them anyway. He knows less about living than about coming back from the dead. As the sky falls and his allies fret and his party balks and the polls sink, he alone remains calm. He takes pride in the very habits that people around him are desperate to change. And he's not afraid of the dark, because he has been here before...
...peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
...DIEGO--In celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 26th Amendment granting 18-year-olds the right to vote, the Republican Party has gone out of its way to promote a youthful sense of pride in the organization...