Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come a long enough way--from my mother, from 1960s-brand feminism, from female competitiveness--that I am able to look myself in the eye, hold up Friday's book with pride and embrace the power and joy of my own, and every other woman's, beauty...
Some readers have objected to the cover of our special Olympics issue [SUMMER 1996], which shows world champion runner Michael Johnson posing on the stars of a flag. The bunting-and-flag theme of the cover was meant to evoke American pride and the patriotism of the U.S. Olympic team. We sincerely apologize to anyone who found it demeaning to the flag. It was not meant to be. By the way, we congratulate Johnson on setting a new world record in the 200 meters just after our issue came...
...were all touched in that crowd, I think, by the way we had been momentarily brought together by the anthem and our usually-concealed love and pride for our nation...
...historically enjoyed a lack of tension between white and black communities. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, children of both races played and ate together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated the land on which black ex-sharecroppers built the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church--a big, beautiful edifice that housed a $10,000 baby-grand piano, the congregation's pride...
...years ago, she completed the New York Marathon in under four hours. In fact, she says, "putting this issue together was a little like running a marathon." The major difference is that marathoners are in pain for weeks afterward. After this issue, the Dream Team feels nothing but pride, which we think you'll agree is justified...