Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Intellectuals sometimes take a certain ain't-we-awful pride in America's tradition of political paranoia (Know-Nothingism, anti-Catholic ravings, McCarthyism, for example). But on the whole, Americans' freedom has made them comparative innocents; dinner parties aside, Stalin may have murdered upwards of 10 million of his fellow citizens, though estimates vary greatly...
...brought home my first fully automatic rifle and a box of teflon-sheathed "cop killer" bullets. It was my ninth birthday. I said "now if those jack-booted thugs come after me I'll be ready for them right pop?" My parents beamed with pride. They still tell that story to all our relatives...
...base in a single-story wooden house next door to an animal hospital on a rutted, dead-end lane. The Second Secretary here is Zhavdets Ilyasov, 49, a retired colonel of Interior Ministry troops. The peeling wallpaper and crumbling ceiling in his office do not discourage him. He takes pride in the obvious differences between his austere communist organization and the fat cats of the old Soviet nomenklatura, who in the new Russia have profited from their high positions. "It is a myth," he says, "that we have a 'Red Governor' in Ulyanovsk. Those in charge here are former party...
...instance of a successful champion which has benefited from government subsidies, he happily cites Airbus Industries. That choice would be hilarious, if it were not quite so bizarre: most Europeans are hardly bursting with pride over the alleged success of Airbus. It is the classic case of the "infant industry" that refuses to grow up, constantly sucking in subsidies which have promoted gross inefficiency and stifled innovation...
Nevertheless, the lack of state comradeship wasn't enough to muffle his pride when the final score appeared...