Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things weren't always this way. Our country was founded and flourished on a strong work ethic, when men and women took pride in being self-sufficient, in working hard and being independent. Many historians, most notably Frederick Jackson Turner, suggest that the value of work and self-sufficiency on the frontier led to the development of our democratic government. Along with the dignity of work is the humiliation of not working, of being dependent on others. Other events, such as the Great Depression, branded the pain and humiliation of poverty onto the minds of entire generations...
...Crimson's recent article on "regionalism" seemed insidiously to equate the Confederate flag with Buffalo wings, surf boards and football games as quaint symbols of regional pride ("Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias" news feature, Nov. 28). It is time we put an end to this nonsense...
...Confederate Flag is a symbol not of the American south, but of the Confederate south. As such, it should be a mark not of southern pride, but of southern shame. --Jeffrey Collins Ph.D. Candidate Department of History
...jury!" The judge said he had rejected life in prison -- an option he had -- because Hill had paused briefly in the parking lot of the clinic after the shooting before throwing down his shotgun and calmly walking off. "The defendant was looking at what he had accomplished with pride and satisfaction," the judge said. Hill's death sentence will be automatically appealed to the Florida Supreme Court...
...will ever confuse writer-director Ron Shelton's new film with The Pride of the Yankees. It is not really a baseball movie or a biopic at all. It is a meditation on the nature of genius, which is not a word we usually apply to ballplayers, even great ones. But that's how Ty Cobb saw himself, and that's how he wanted to be remembered. To that end, in the last year of his life, he hired a sportswriter named Al Stump to help him write his autobiography. Cobb's orders were to ignore anything in his life...